L Lobao
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3025 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Lobao |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | Lobao |
| ASSINATURA | LOBAO L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4946-5936 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 805 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 19 |
Where is the Care Sector? Education and Health Employment Across U.S. Counties During a Time of Slow Growth, 2001–2014
Care work supports the health, well-being, and development of human beings across the life course. Increasingly in the United States and in many societies, formal organizations deliver care alongside the care work done within families and communities. Even market-based care organizations depend on major public investments, however. The care sector is therefore integral to population policy and science. Investment in the care sector may be particu…
Jail incarceration across the U.S
Social scientists have highlighted jail incarceration as an important social problem in the United States. However, few national-level generalizable studies have investigated how the characteristics of communities and their local governments influence jail incarceration, despite jails being an intrinsically community-level institution largely run by county governments. In this paper, we ask how place-based community characteristics, particularly …
Left behind places’
left behind places, geographically uneven development, spatial inequalities, place-based policy, regional development policy
Transforming the residential built environment
Urban inequality revisited
Inequality is a pivotal concern for social scientists, manifest within and across communities globally. Geoffrey DeVerteuil provides a provocative discussion about the contours of inequality in the city and offers a heuristic framework aimed at its understanding. I focus on three aspects of DeVerteuil's arguments: the importance of reconsidering radical political economy theory to understand urban change and bridge disparate traditions; how the l…
Left behind places’
left behindedness, left behind places, geographically uneven development, spatial inequalities
Understanding the post-Covid state and its geographies
Urban Austerity Theory, Politicizing Space, and Cutback Policies across Urban and Rural Communities
Urban theorists offer varying explanations for why communities use austerity policies that limit or cut government. We develop a synthesis of political-economic and institutional explanations. Using this new synthetic approach, we analyze the characteristics of communities that promote the use of cutback policies and question whether relationships derived from urban theories can be extended across the urban-rural continuum. We draw on original pr…
Seeing the Local State
Sociologists have long recognized uneven development within nations and differential patterns of poverty and prosperity across places. In analyzing why some places fare better than others, researchers largely focus on market forces. Few studies have considered the role of the local state. Yet in many countries today local governments have gained responsibilities and control as national governments offload responsibilities. This shift toward local…
Whose Need Matters
Sociologists have long studied poverty across localities. Yet, little research focuses on local governments and the social services they directly provide to those in-need. Researchers concerned with the US welfare state note that localized administration of social programs creates geographic variability in provisioning and potential for status-based discrimination, such as racism, to influence policy. This paper addresses two questions: (1) To wh…
The Political-Economy of Local Land-Use Policy
This study takes a new look at place development, analyzing the power of local business actors as compared to civic society and government in localities across the United States. We address the contested question of who controls place-making with a focus on growth control land-use policies. Theoretically, we draw from sociology’s growth machine framework to provide a comparative account of business actors and to speak to puzzling findings from th…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 47 No. 1
Welfare participation has been a longstanding issue of public debate for 50 years but remains largely understudied in welfare literature.The purpose of this research is to challenge the flawed assumptions of welfare participation by examining the varying spatial inequalities that influence U.S. welfare participation rates among eligible poor.This comparative analysis uses spatial inequality theory to examine welfareto-work participation rates in …
The Growth Machine across the United States
The growth machine (GM) perspective has long guided urban research. Our study provides a new extension of this perspective, focusing on local business actors’ influence on communities across the United States. We question whether GM–oriented business actors remain widely associated with contemporary local economic development policies, and further, whether these actors influence the use of limited–government austerity policies. Conceptually, we e…
The Social Bases of Rural-Urban Political Divides
The rural-urban political divide has sparked media and social science concern. Yet national studies of rural and urban voters have largely failed to draw from the distinct conceptual literatures produced by rural sociologists. We take a new look at individuals' voting choices, building from two rural sociological literatures, research on spatial inequality and on the rural-urban continuum, to identify the social bases anteceding Republican voting…
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
The rising importance of local government in the United States
Local governments have gained increasing responsibilities for public well‐being according to a variety of social science literatures. The rise of the local state is often seen as a part of a broader process of state‐rescaling or downward shift in national governance under neoliberal development. Yet attention to local government lags in political sociology, which conventionally elevates the national federal state as its object of interest. I summ…
Poverty, Place, and Coal Employment across Appalachia and the United States in a New Economic Era
The impacts of employment in the coal industry remain controversial. Few studies have investigated these impacts over the decade of the great recession and in light of the nation's changing energy economy. We bring together two long-standing rural sociological traditions to address debates framed at the national level and for Appalachian communities facing the throes of transition from the coal industry. Building from rural sociology's 'poverty a…
Development Sociology at the Subnational Scale
Sociologists have long studied subnational development across the United States focusing on state and market forces that contribute to spatial inequality and uneven development. Subnational research is central to development sociology's concern with the present neoliberal stage of capitalism and to numerous theoretical, substantive, and policy issues that revolve around poverty and prosperity within the nation. Yet the body of work faces a number…
Austerity in the city
The city is a significant level of geography at which to examine the economic, political and social implications of austerity. We consider how the financial crisis originated in the urban and became part of a broader state crisis with consequences for cities. We then explore political implications that include the undermining of democratic processes and the rise of new 'austerity' regimes. We also consider implications for key social groups. Argu…
Privatization, Business Attraction, and Social Services across the United States
Privatization, business attraction incentives, and limited social service provision are market-oriented policies that broadly concern social scientists. These policies are conventionally assumed to be widely implemented across the United States, a world model of neoliberal development. This study takes a new look at these policies, providing a first view of how they unfold across the nation at a geographic scale that drills down to the local stat…
Ownership, control and economic outcomes
Ownership is central to how the economic system operates. Yet the topic is widely neglected. This is particularly surprising given the 2007–2008 credit crunch, which created in 2009 the first global recession since the 1930s. Ownership played a crucial role, from the drive for ‘shareholder value’, through to the mortgages for home ownership used to create new financial instruments. The resulting bad debts were taken on by governments seeking to p…
Making space for well-being
“There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. As Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier” (Layard, 2005). Layard has not been alone in questioning the relationship between economic growth and well-being. Theoretically, empirically and politically, there is an increasing amount of dissatisfaction with growth as the main indicator of well-being. As part of this dissatisfaction, there is a renewed interest in analysin…
State rescaling and local governments' austerity policies across the USA, 2001-2008
This study examines the geography of local austerity policies across the USA. We contrast two perspectives, the political economy framework that sees a general shift towards the use of limited government austerity policies across regions and over time and newer state-rescaling literature that challenges this view. Analyses are based on data collected in 2008 with cross-time policy comparisons with 2001 from over 1700 counties. The findings indica…
Public Concern with Farm-Animal Welfare
The welfare of farm animals has become a continuing source of controversy as states seek greater regulation over the livestock industry. However, empirical studies addressing the determinants of public concern for farm-animal welfare are limited. Religion and politics, two institutional bases of attitudes, are rarely explored. Nor have sociologists responded systematically to the popular charge that people concerned with animal welfare care less …
Space and Politics
Public Concern with Animal Well-Being
While sociologists and the public at large are increasingly interested in the life conditions of animals, conceptual and empirical development of the topic is limited. This paper seeks to further develop the sociological research on attitudes toward animal well-being. We build on insights from contemporary stratification theory to explain the nature of animal attitudes and their determinants. We also extend past work by examining a broader range …
Continuity and Change in Place Stratification
Sociologists have produced large, well-known literatures on inequality across geographic territory at two ends of the spatial scale continuum, within the city and across nation-states. In this paper, I discuss a different scale of focus, subnational stratification processes across middle-range spatial units, those between the city and nation-state. While characterizing much contemporary rural sociological research, this approach to spatial inequa…
Austerity in the city
The city is a significant level of geography at which to examine the economic, political and social implications of austerity. We consider how the financial crisis originated in the urban and became part of a broader state crisis with consequences for cities. We then explore political implications that include the undermining of democratic processes and the rise of new 'austerity' regimes. We also consider implications for key social groups. Argu…
Midwestern Agriculture in Us Fordism
Spatial Inequality and Diversity as an Emerging Research Area
A Sociology of the Periphery Versus a Peripheral Sociology
Rural sociology is intrinsically concerned with the spatial dimensions of social life. However, this underlying research tradition, particularly the use of space as a research strategy, has been insufficiently addressed and its contributions to general sociology are little recognized. I outline how concern with space, uneven development, and the social relationships of peripheral settings have provided substantive boundary and conceptual meaning …
The Social Bases of Rural-Urban Political Divides
The rural-urban political divide has sparked media and social science concern. Yet national studies of rural and urban voters have largely failed to draw from the distinct conceptual literatures produced by rural sociologists. We take a new look at individuals' voting choices, building from two rural sociological literatures, research on spatial inequality and on the rural-urban continuum, to identify the social bases anteceding Republican voting…
Poverty, Place, and Coal Employment across Appalachia and the United States in a New Economic Era
The impacts of employment in the coal industry remain controversial. Few studies have investigated these impacts over the decade of the great recession and in light of the nation's changing energy economy. We bring together two long-standing rural sociological traditions to address debates framed at the national level and for Appalachian communities facing the throes of transition from the coal industry. Building from rural sociology's 'poverty a…
State rescaling and local governments' austerity policies across the USA, 2001-2008
This study examines the geography of local austerity policies across the USA. We contrast two perspectives, the political economy framework that sees a general shift towards the use of limited government austerity policies across regions and over time and newer state-rescaling literature that challenges this view. Analyses are based on data collected in 2008 with cross-time policy comparisons with 2001 from over 1700 counties. The findings indica…
The community effects of industrialized farming
Psychosocial Consequences of Agricultural Transformation
The recent farm financial crisis has resulted in a rapid and dramatic economic decline for many farmers. Although researchers have long observed that economic crisis and vulnerability contribute to social-psychological depression, few studies have examined the links between farm restructuring and the depression process. We address this issue using a sample of 503 Ohio farmers from 1987. We hypothesize 1) that sociodemographic and farm structural …
Public Concern with Farm-Animal Welfare
The welfare of farm animals has become a continuing source of controversy as states seek greater regulation over the livestock industry. However, empirical studies addressing the determinants of public concern for farm-animal welfare are limited. Religion and politics, two institutional bases of attitudes, are rarely explored. Nor have sociologists responded systematically to the popular charge that people concerned with animal welfare care less …
Public Employment, Welfare Transfers, and Economic Well-Being across Local Populations
This study examines state provisioning of social welfare and employment and its consequences for local economic well-being. Do a larger public sector and more generous social welfare transfers help or harm local populations? To address this question, we derive hypotheses from two competing social policy schools, neoliberal and radical political economy. We assess how claims from both schools operate on the ground, through an empirical test using …
Capital-Labor Relations in the U.S. Textile Industry
Farming Patterns, Rural Restructuring, and Poverty
This study examines the contentions of two recent perspectives on rural economic organization and their implications for poverty. Building from (1) agrarian political economy and (2) the rural restructuring literatures, we present a comparative regional analysis of how farming patterns and other aspects of economic organization differentially affect poverty in rural areas. Data are based on 2,349 nonmetropolitan U.S. counties for the 1970-1980 pe…
The Prison Industry
Objectives. Despite the interest that social scientists have displayed in the rising rate of incarceration, little attention has been devoted to understanding its consequences for local areas. This is an important omission because prison construction has become a component of state and local economic development schemes. Indeed, there is a widespread belief that prison construction provides significant economic benefits to local areas. Methods. W…
Local Economic Development in an Age of Devolution
There is limited recent research on the strategies that rural local governments are employing in the face of changing intergovernmental relationships, especially in relation to local economic development. This paper draws on data from a survey of local governments in the Ohio River Valley Region that includes a mix of localities on the urban-rural continuum, to empirically address three issues. First, we examined the extent to which county govern…
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
Left behind places’
left behindedness, left behind places, geographically uneven development, spatial inequalities
Privatization, Business Attraction, and Social Services across the United States
Privatization, business attraction incentives, and limited social service provision are market-oriented policies that broadly concern social scientists. These policies are conventionally assumed to be widely implemented across the United States, a world model of neoliberal development. This study takes a new look at these policies, providing a first view of how they unfold across the nation at a geographic scale that drills down to the local stat…
Revisiting the Impact of Prison Building on Job Growth
Objectives. It is widely believed that prison construction offers significant economic benefits to local areas. We review the popular and scholarly literature and provide a quantitative analysis of claims. Methods. We analyze data on all existing and new prisons in the United States since 1960 to assess the impact of these prisons on the pace of public, private, and total employment growth in U.S. counties from 1976 to 2004. Results. Our results …
Poverty and inequality across space
The study of stratification is a foremost concern of sociologists. Historical engagement with this topic creates a distinct conceptual lens on poverty and inequality and a voluminous body of empirical work that set sociology apart from economics and to some degree, geography. At the same time, the discipline is limited in developing a spatial understanding of stratification processes. In this article, we put forth a critique of sociological resea…
Still Going
The literature on the Goldschmidt (1978a) hypothesis has passed through distinct stages. This article is a commentary on the present status of the literature and particularly on a recent article by Barnes and Blevins (1992). Our arguments draw in large part from our previous work. Researchers in the 1970s and early 1980s were concerned mainly with replicating Goldschmidt's work. However, these studies had a number of methodological and conceptual…
Whose Need Matters
Sociologists have long studied poverty across localities. Yet, little research focuses on local governments and the social services they directly provide to those in-need. Researchers concerned with the US welfare state note that localized administration of social programs creates geographic variability in provisioning and potential for status-based discrimination, such as racism, to influence policy. This paper addresses two questions: (1) To wh…
The rising importance of local government in the United States
Local governments have gained increasing responsibilities for public well‐being according to a variety of social science literatures. The rise of the local state is often seen as a part of a broader process of state‐rescaling or downward shift in national governance under neoliberal development. Yet attention to local government lags in political sociology, which conventionally elevates the national federal state as its object of interest. I summ…
Agrarian origins, industrial experience, and militancy
What are the impacts of agrarian origins and industrial experience upon worker militancy? Investigations of this question have been framed by reference to the experiences of newly proletarianized workers‐their path to the factory via farming and their industrial experience or socialization into nonfarm working class life. Some argue that newly proletarianized workers are prone to militancy due to their inexperience with factory discipline and mar…
Rural Women and State Policy
Midwestern Agriculture in Us Fordism
Women in revolutionary movements
Capital-Labor Relations in the U.S. Textile Industry
Psychosocial Consequences of Agricultural Transformation
The recent farm financial crisis has resulted in a rapid and dramatic economic decline for many farmers. Although researchers have long observed that economic crisis and vulnerability contribute to social-psychological depression, few studies have examined the links between farm restructuring and the depression process. We address this issue using a sample of 503 Ohio farmers from 1987. We hypothesize 1) that sociodemographic and farm structural …
Locality and Inequality
Farming Patterns, Rural Restructuring, and Poverty
This study examines the contentions of two recent perspectives on rural economic organization and their implications for poverty. Building from (1) agrarian political economy and (2) the rural restructuring literatures, we present a comparative regional analysis of how farming patterns and other aspects of economic organization differentially affect poverty in rural areas. Data are based on 2,349 nonmetropolitan U.S. counties for the 1970-1980 pe…
Political Beliefs in an Era of Economic Decline
The effects of the economy on political attitudes is a longstanding sociological issue that is receiving renewed attention in the face of recent U.S. economic downturns. While the impacts of the farm crisis on financial and household well-being of farm operators have been addressed by a number of studies, few have explored its political outcomes. Four perspectives that consider how economic forces translate into political beliefs are outlined, tw…
Rural Poverty in America
Still Going
The literature on the Goldschmidt (1978a) hypothesis has passed through distinct stages. This article is a commentary on the present status of the literature and particularly on a recent article by Barnes and Blevins (1992). Our arguments draw in large part from our previous work. Researchers in the 1970s and early 1980s were concerned mainly with replicating Goldschmidt's work. However, these studies had a number of methodological and conceptual…
Prairie Patrimony
The Place of 'Place' in Current Sociological Research
Economic Decline, Gender, and Labor Flexibility in Family-Based Enterprises
During economic downturns, traditional gender allocations of labor have been considered to vary more than in prosperous times. While most studies have examined the division of labor in the household or in paid employment, we examined it where both intersect, in family-owned and family-operated enterprises in the farm sector of the 1980s. This context, combining crisis conditions and the agency of economic actors, should be related to greater flex…
Commentaries
International audience
A Sociology of the Periphery Versus a Peripheral Sociology
Rural sociology is intrinsically concerned with the spatial dimensions of social life. However, this underlying research tradition, particularly the use of space as a research strategy, has been insufficiently addressed and its contributions to general sociology are little recognized. I outline how concern with space, uneven development, and the social relationships of peripheral settings have provided substantive boundary and conceptual meaning …
Farmers' and Farm Workers' Movements
Farm Couples and Crisis Politics
Katherine Meyer, Linda Lobao, Farm Couples and Crisis Politics: The Importance of Household, Spouse, and Gender in Responding to Economic Decline, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 204-218
Social Science Generalizations and Old Industrial Regions
Development Context, Regional Differences among Young Women, and Fertility
Journal Article Development Context, Regional Differences among Young Women, and Fertility: The Ecuadorean Amazon Get access Linda M. Lobao, Linda M. Lobao The Ohio State University Please direct all correspondence to Linda Lobao, Rural Sociology Program, College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Diversity in attitudes toward farming and patterns of work among farm women
Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities
Capital Moves
Spatial Inequality and Diversity as an Emerging Research Area
Economic hardship, religion and mental health during the midwestern farm crisis
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