Adam M Butz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3424381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam M Butz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam M |
| FAMILY NAME | Butz |
| SIGNATURE | BUTZ A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9235-3916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Race for Profit
This piece is a review of the heralded book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2019, The University of North Carolina Press). While Taylor's Race for Profit has been widely praised among reviewers in disciplines like history, urban planning, and business administration, its lessons have not been fully unpacked for the field of public administration. We first highlight important and relevant se…
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion
The Exclusion of Immigrants from Welfare Programs
A contingent diffusion model of local climate change policy adoption
Intersectionality and Social Welfare
This research adds to the emergent literature on intersectionality and public administration through examining how transgender women of color (trans WOC) are interacting with U.S. social welfare offices. It is our contention that trans WOC, facing a compounded set of negative stereotypes derived from racial and gender identities, will be more likely than other transgender identifying persons to: (1) avoid seeking out public welfare benefits and (…
Social Control Meets New Public Management
While the merits and perils of privatization have remained a contentious and often polarizing debate, privatization of public services remains commonplace throughout the world. For instance, over the last several decades, U.S. governments at all levels have routinely pursued contracting arrangements for corrections management, known popularly as prison privatization. In this article, state prison privatization (SPP) is examined in three ways. Fir…
Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment and the Adoption of State Immigration Policy
Over the last two decades, the American states have become increasingly active in shaping U.S. immigration policies. One consistent predictor in studies of state immigration policies revolves around public opinion or mass political attitudes in the form of anti‐immigrant sentiment. Unfortunately, past research relies extensively on blunt demographic proxies or other alternative replacements to measure mass opinion. Through incorporating a direct …
Estimating anti-immigrant sentiment for the American states using multi-level modeling and post-stratification, 2004–2008
An estimate is provided of an innovative state-level measure of anti-immigrant sentiment for use in future policy and behavioral studies. State governments became increasingly active in adopting immigrant policies in the 2000s. Previous research highlights the role of public opinion, especially attitudes toward immigrants, in explaining policy priorities and outcomes. Unfortunately, most extant studies utilize political ideology or immigrant popu…
Theorizing About Poverty and Paternalism in Suburban America
Shifting metropolitan poverty dynamics over the past decade have resulted in a more sprawling material hardship, with the suburban poor now outnumbering central-city counterparts. The rise of suburban poverty is well documented, but the implications for welfare policy administration and client program outcomes remain understudied. This article offers a theoretical treatment of the spatial dimensions of sanction for noncompliance with program rule…
Social Distrust and Immigrant Access to Welfare Programs in the American States
Social trust ameliorates collective action problems by allowing multicultural societies to adopt more inclusive and equitable public policies directed toward newly arriving immigrants. However, existing research warns that increasing ethnic diversity from immigrant populations can undermine levels of social trust, hindering mass support for redistributive policies that empower low‐income minority populations. This article examines the relationshi…
Policy Learning and the Diffusion of Stand‐Your‐Ground Laws
Stand‐Your‐Ground (SYG) laws have recently received increased attention due to the controversial verdict in the 2013 George Zimmerman trial. At the time of the trial, 22 states had adopted SYG laws, with Florida adopting the first SYG law only a few years earlier. This article explores how policy learning contributed to the diffusion of these laws among U.S. states. It is found that learning exhibits atypical and complex patterns of diffusion not…
Policy Learning and the Diffusion of Stand‐Your‐Ground Laws
Stand‐Your‐Ground (SYG) laws have recently received increased attention due to the controversial verdict in the 2013 George Zimmerman trial. At the time of the trial, 22 states had adopted SYG laws, with Florida adopting the first SYG law only a few years earlier. This article explores how policy learning contributed to the diffusion of these laws among U.S. states. It is found that learning exhibits atypical and complex patterns of diffusion not…
Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment and the Adoption of State Immigration Policy
Over the last two decades, the American states have become increasingly active in shaping U.S. immigration policies. One consistent predictor in studies of state immigration policies revolves around public opinion or mass political attitudes in the form of anti‐immigrant sentiment. Unfortunately, past research relies extensively on blunt demographic proxies or other alternative replacements to measure mass opinion. Through incorporating a direct …
Estimating anti-immigrant sentiment for the American states using multi-level modeling and post-stratification, 2004–2008
An estimate is provided of an innovative state-level measure of anti-immigrant sentiment for use in future policy and behavioral studies. State governments became increasingly active in adopting immigrant policies in the 2000s. Previous research highlights the role of public opinion, especially attitudes toward immigrants, in explaining policy priorities and outcomes. Unfortunately, most extant studies utilize political ideology or immigrant popu…
A contingent diffusion model of local climate change policy adoption
Social Distrust and Immigrant Access to Welfare Programs in the American States
Social trust ameliorates collective action problems by allowing multicultural societies to adopt more inclusive and equitable public policies directed toward newly arriving immigrants. However, existing research warns that increasing ethnic diversity from immigrant populations can undermine levels of social trust, hindering mass support for redistributive policies that empower low‐income minority populations. This article examines the relationshi…
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion
Social Control Meets New Public Management
While the merits and perils of privatization have remained a contentious and often polarizing debate, privatization of public services remains commonplace throughout the world. For instance, over the last several decades, U.S. governments at all levels have routinely pursued contracting arrangements for corrections management, known popularly as prison privatization. In this article, state prison privatization (SPP) is examined in three ways. Fir…
Theorizing About Poverty and Paternalism in Suburban America
Shifting metropolitan poverty dynamics over the past decade have resulted in a more sprawling material hardship, with the suburban poor now outnumbering central-city counterparts. The rise of suburban poverty is well documented, but the implications for welfare policy administration and client program outcomes remain understudied. This article offers a theoretical treatment of the spatial dimensions of sanction for noncompliance with program rule…
Social Distrust and Immigrant Access to Welfare Programs in the American States
Social trust ameliorates collective action problems by allowing multicultural societies to adopt more inclusive and equitable public policies directed toward newly arriving immigrants. However, existing research warns that increasing ethnic diversity from immigrant populations can undermine levels of social trust, hindering mass support for redistributive policies that empower low‐income minority populations. This article examines the relationshi…
Policy Learning and the Diffusion of Stand‐Your‐Ground Laws
Stand‐Your‐Ground (SYG) laws have recently received increased attention due to the controversial verdict in the 2013 George Zimmerman trial. At the time of the trial, 22 states had adopted SYG laws, with Florida adopting the first SYG law only a few years earlier. This article explores how policy learning contributed to the diffusion of these laws among U.S. states. It is found that learning exhibits atypical and complex patterns of diffusion not…
Estimating anti-immigrant sentiment for the American states using multi-level modeling and post-stratification, 2004–2008
An estimate is provided of an innovative state-level measure of anti-immigrant sentiment for use in future policy and behavioral studies. State governments became increasingly active in adopting immigrant policies in the 2000s. Previous research highlights the role of public opinion, especially attitudes toward immigrants, in explaining policy priorities and outcomes. Unfortunately, most extant studies utilize political ideology or immigrant popu…
Theorizing About Poverty and Paternalism in Suburban America
Shifting metropolitan poverty dynamics over the past decade have resulted in a more sprawling material hardship, with the suburban poor now outnumbering central-city counterparts. The rise of suburban poverty is well documented, but the implications for welfare policy administration and client program outcomes remain understudied. This article offers a theoretical treatment of the spatial dimensions of sanction for noncompliance with program rule…
Social Control Meets New Public Management
While the merits and perils of privatization have remained a contentious and often polarizing debate, privatization of public services remains commonplace throughout the world. For instance, over the last several decades, U.S. governments at all levels have routinely pursued contracting arrangements for corrections management, known popularly as prison privatization. In this article, state prison privatization (SPP) is examined in three ways. Fir…
Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment and the Adoption of State Immigration Policy
Over the last two decades, the American states have become increasingly active in shaping U.S. immigration policies. One consistent predictor in studies of state immigration policies revolves around public opinion or mass political attitudes in the form of anti‐immigrant sentiment. Unfortunately, past research relies extensively on blunt demographic proxies or other alternative replacements to measure mass opinion. Through incorporating a direct …
The Exclusion of Immigrants from Welfare Programs
A contingent diffusion model of local climate change policy adoption
Intersectionality and Social Welfare
This research adds to the emergent literature on intersectionality and public administration through examining how transgender women of color (trans WOC) are interacting with U.S. social welfare offices. It is our contention that trans WOC, facing a compounded set of negative stereotypes derived from racial and gender identities, will be more likely than other transgender identifying persons to: (1) avoid seeking out public welfare benefits and (…
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion
Race for Profit
This piece is a review of the heralded book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2019, The University of North Carolina Press). While Taylor's Race for Profit has been widely praised among reviewers in disciplines like history, urban planning, and business administration, its lessons have not been fully unpacked for the field of public administration. We first highlight important and relevant se…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works)