Meghan Condon
Biographic Data
| ID | 352243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meghan Condon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meghan |
| FAMILY NAME | Condon |
| SIGNATURE | CONDON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8764-2249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations
Gender gaps in partisanship, vote choice, and opinion are well documented in the American electorate. In 2016, men’s and women’s subjective economic evaluations—of their own circumstances and the broader economy—also diverged considerably. We investigate the size, structure, and explanations of this gap. Drawing on cross-sectional and panel data, we show that the gap widened to historic levels following Trump’s election, driven by increased optim…
Limits to asset manager adaptation
In Our Lives in Their Portfolios, Brett Christophers provides an account of the rise of 'asset manager society' - a world in which the infrastructures of public life are converted from public to private ownership. Here I use Christophers' analysis to comment on growing calls for asset manager investment in climate adaptation. The asset manager business model requires ever-escalating returns, a poor fit with the now unavoidable losses that climate…
Economic anxiety among contingent survey workers
The effects of partisan framing on Covid-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic
Political polarization has dominated news coverage of Americans’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this research note, we report findings from two experimental studies, in which we present respondents with news stories about COVID-19 mitigation measures that emphasize partisan difference or accord. The stories present the same numeric facts about public opinion, but highlight either the partisan gap that existed at the time of the study, or …
Market Myopia's Climate Bubble
A growing number of financial institutions, ranging from BlackRock to the Bank of England, have warned that markets may not be accurately incorporating climate change-related risks into asset prices. This Article seeks to explain how this mispricing can exist at the level of individual assets drawing from scholarship on corporate governance and the mechanisms of market (in)efficiency. Market actors: 1. Lack the fine-grained asset-level data they …
Economic Other: Inequality in the American Political Imagination
Inequality in the Social Mind: Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution
Income inequality is fundamentally relational in nature, but research on the American public’s response to it tends to examine individuals in isolation, concluding that support for redistribution is unresponsive to inequality. We focus instead on perceptions of relative socioeconomic position, which we manipulate experimentally through imagined social interactions with high- or low-status others. We find that subjects who make social comparisons …
The Economic Other: Inequality in the American Political Imagination
Understanding environmental, health and economic activity interactions following transition of ownership in gold mining areas in Tanzania: A case of private to public
Mining is an important source of revenue for many developing countries, however, the social, environmental and economic impacts of mining are often poorly monitored. The recent transition of a gold mine in Western Tanzania—from large-scale gold mine under private, multinational ownership, to medium-scale public and national owned mine with limited life length offers a prime opportunity to understand the implications of changes in ownership and sc…
Democracy Against Domination
What does a good economy look like, and how do we get there? K. Sabeel Rahman asks these questions—one moral, the other pragmatic—and suggests that most contemporary political actors are looking in the wrong place for both answers. He characterizes the discourse as overly concerned with politically neutral metrics such as consumer welfare and growth, and he critiques policy debates as narrowly centered on the dosage of regulation: pitting more (a…
Immigrant Inclusion in the Safety Net: A Framework for Analysis and Effects on Educational Attainment
Across states, there is substantial variation in the degree to which immigrants and their children are offered public assistance. We present a theoretical framework for analyzing the effects of policy decisions about immigrant inclusion. We apply the framework to investigate the effect of the state safety net on educational attainment. We focus on the years following welfare reform in 1996, when states gained considerable autonomy over welfare po…
Partisan Social Pressure and Voter Mobilization
Social voting norms persistently impel citizens to the polls. To date, most research in this field has focused on norms coming from the community at large rather than voters’ particular social groups. But pressure to conform to in-group norms may have an even stronger effect; inquiry across disciplines repeatedly demonstrates that group identity can be an important moderator in the relationship between norms and behavior. We apply this lesson to …
Measuring Social Capital: Accounting for Nested Data and Subnetworks Within Schools
Same blueprint, different bricks: Reexamining the sources of the gender gap in political ideology
Since the 1990s the ideological gap between men and women has grown, but scholars debate whether this difference is driven by diverging opinion on individual issues or differences in ideological reasoning. Utilizing Item Response Theory, we test for gender differences in multiple aspects of ideological thinking: ideological constraint, stability, the importance of individual issues to ideology, and the degree to which people base their self-repor…
Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State
Journal Article Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State Get access Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State by Douglas S. Reed. New York, Oxford University Press, 2014. 352 pp. $45.00. Meghan Condon Meghan Condon Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 3, Fall 2015, Pages …
Voice Lessons: Rethinking the Relationship Between Education and Political Participation
Social Pressure, Descriptive Norms, and Voter Mobilization
Entering Politics: General Self‐Efficacy and Voting Behavior Among Young People
Political science traditionally conceptualizes efficacy only in relation to politics and government. In this article, we look beyond political efficacy and examine the effect of general self‐efficacy on young adults' voting behavior. General self‐efficacy, an individual's estimation of capacity to operate successfully across a variety of domains, is often important to the behavioral decisions of individuals entering a new domain of activity. With…
The Illusion of Technique: How Method‐Driven Research Leads Welfare Scholarship Astray
The Unnamed and the Defaced: The Limits of Rhetoric in Augustine's Confessiones
This article addresses a seeming aporia for the modern reader of Augustine's Confessiones: why is it that Augustine refuses to name significant figures in his life throughout his self-narrative? By way of attempting an answer, I begin with the formal problems of the Confessiones, that is, how one should approach such a fractured and rhetorically disciplined text. Then I address the more specific problem that has been curiously neglected by a whol…
Inequality in the Social Mind: Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution
Income inequality is fundamentally relational in nature, but research on the American public’s response to it tends to examine individuals in isolation, concluding that support for redistribution is unresponsive to inequality. We focus instead on perceptions of relative socioeconomic position, which we manipulate experimentally through imagined social interactions with high- or low-status others. We find that subjects who make social comparisons …
Entering Politics: General Self‐Efficacy and Voting Behavior Among Young People
Political science traditionally conceptualizes efficacy only in relation to politics and government. In this article, we look beyond political efficacy and examine the effect of general self‐efficacy on young adults' voting behavior. General self‐efficacy, an individual's estimation of capacity to operate successfully across a variety of domains, is often important to the behavioral decisions of individuals entering a new domain of activity. With…
Social Pressure, Descriptive Norms, and Voter Mobilization
Voice Lessons: Rethinking the Relationship Between Education and Political Participation
Immigrant Inclusion in the Safety Net: A Framework for Analysis and Effects on Educational Attainment
Across states, there is substantial variation in the degree to which immigrants and their children are offered public assistance. We present a theoretical framework for analyzing the effects of policy decisions about immigrant inclusion. We apply the framework to investigate the effect of the state safety net on educational attainment. We focus on the years following welfare reform in 1996, when states gained considerable autonomy over welfare po…
Same blueprint, different bricks: Reexamining the sources of the gender gap in political ideology
Since the 1990s the ideological gap between men and women has grown, but scholars debate whether this difference is driven by diverging opinion on individual issues or differences in ideological reasoning. Utilizing Item Response Theory, we test for gender differences in multiple aspects of ideological thinking: ideological constraint, stability, the importance of individual issues to ideology, and the degree to which people base their self-repor…
The Illusion of Technique: How Method‐Driven Research Leads Welfare Scholarship Astray
Partisan Social Pressure and Voter Mobilization
Social voting norms persistently impel citizens to the polls. To date, most research in this field has focused on norms coming from the community at large rather than voters’ particular social groups. But pressure to conform to in-group norms may have an even stronger effect; inquiry across disciplines repeatedly demonstrates that group identity can be an important moderator in the relationship between norms and behavior. We apply this lesson to …
The effects of partisan framing on Covid-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic
Political polarization has dominated news coverage of Americans’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this research note, we report findings from two experimental studies, in which we present respondents with news stories about COVID-19 mitigation measures that emphasize partisan difference or accord. The stories present the same numeric facts about public opinion, but highlight either the partisan gap that existed at the time of the study, or …
Market Myopia's Climate Bubble
A growing number of financial institutions, ranging from BlackRock to the Bank of England, have warned that markets may not be accurately incorporating climate change-related risks into asset prices. This Article seeks to explain how this mispricing can exist at the level of individual assets drawing from scholarship on corporate governance and the mechanisms of market (in)efficiency. Market actors: 1. Lack the fine-grained asset-level data they …
Understanding environmental, health and economic activity interactions following transition of ownership in gold mining areas in Tanzania: A case of private to public
Mining is an important source of revenue for many developing countries, however, the social, environmental and economic impacts of mining are often poorly monitored. The recent transition of a gold mine in Western Tanzania—from large-scale gold mine under private, multinational ownership, to medium-scale public and national owned mine with limited life length offers a prime opportunity to understand the implications of changes in ownership and sc…
Measuring Social Capital: Accounting for Nested Data and Subnetworks Within Schools
The Unnamed and the Defaced: The Limits of Rhetoric in Augustine's Confessiones
This article addresses a seeming aporia for the modern reader of Augustine's Confessiones: why is it that Augustine refuses to name significant figures in his life throughout his self-narrative? By way of attempting an answer, I begin with the formal problems of the Confessiones, that is, how one should approach such a fractured and rhetorically disciplined text. Then I address the more specific problem that has been curiously neglected by a whol…
The Illusion of Technique: How Method‐Driven Research Leads Welfare Scholarship Astray
Entering Politics: General Self‐Efficacy and Voting Behavior Among Young People
Political science traditionally conceptualizes efficacy only in relation to politics and government. In this article, we look beyond political efficacy and examine the effect of general self‐efficacy on young adults' voting behavior. General self‐efficacy, an individual's estimation of capacity to operate successfully across a variety of domains, is often important to the behavioral decisions of individuals entering a new domain of activity. With…
Social Pressure, Descriptive Norms, and Voter Mobilization
Same blueprint, different bricks: Reexamining the sources of the gender gap in political ideology
Since the 1990s the ideological gap between men and women has grown, but scholars debate whether this difference is driven by diverging opinion on individual issues or differences in ideological reasoning. Utilizing Item Response Theory, we test for gender differences in multiple aspects of ideological thinking: ideological constraint, stability, the importance of individual issues to ideology, and the degree to which people base their self-repor…
Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State
Journal Article Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State Get access Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State by Douglas S. Reed. New York, Oxford University Press, 2014. 352 pp. $45.00. Meghan Condon Meghan Condon Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 3, Fall 2015, Pages …
Voice Lessons: Rethinking the Relationship Between Education and Political Participation
Immigrant Inclusion in the Safety Net: A Framework for Analysis and Effects on Educational Attainment
Across states, there is substantial variation in the degree to which immigrants and their children are offered public assistance. We present a theoretical framework for analyzing the effects of policy decisions about immigrant inclusion. We apply the framework to investigate the effect of the state safety net on educational attainment. We focus on the years following welfare reform in 1996, when states gained considerable autonomy over welfare po…
Partisan Social Pressure and Voter Mobilization
Social voting norms persistently impel citizens to the polls. To date, most research in this field has focused on norms coming from the community at large rather than voters’ particular social groups. But pressure to conform to in-group norms may have an even stronger effect; inquiry across disciplines repeatedly demonstrates that group identity can be an important moderator in the relationship between norms and behavior. We apply this lesson to …
Measuring Social Capital: Accounting for Nested Data and Subnetworks Within Schools
Understanding environmental, health and economic activity interactions following transition of ownership in gold mining areas in Tanzania: A case of private to public
Mining is an important source of revenue for many developing countries, however, the social, environmental and economic impacts of mining are often poorly monitored. The recent transition of a gold mine in Western Tanzania—from large-scale gold mine under private, multinational ownership, to medium-scale public and national owned mine with limited life length offers a prime opportunity to understand the implications of changes in ownership and sc…
Democracy Against Domination
What does a good economy look like, and how do we get there? K. Sabeel Rahman asks these questions—one moral, the other pragmatic—and suggests that most contemporary political actors are looking in the wrong place for both answers. He characterizes the discourse as overly concerned with politically neutral metrics such as consumer welfare and growth, and he critiques policy debates as narrowly centered on the dosage of regulation: pitting more (a…
The Economic Other: Inequality in the American Political Imagination
Economic Other: Inequality in the American Political Imagination
Inequality in the Social Mind: Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution
Income inequality is fundamentally relational in nature, but research on the American public’s response to it tends to examine individuals in isolation, concluding that support for redistribution is unresponsive to inequality. We focus instead on perceptions of relative socioeconomic position, which we manipulate experimentally through imagined social interactions with high- or low-status others. We find that subjects who make social comparisons …
Market Myopia's Climate Bubble
A growing number of financial institutions, ranging from BlackRock to the Bank of England, have warned that markets may not be accurately incorporating climate change-related risks into asset prices. This Article seeks to explain how this mispricing can exist at the level of individual assets drawing from scholarship on corporate governance and the mechanisms of market (in)efficiency. Market actors: 1. Lack the fine-grained asset-level data they …
The effects of partisan framing on Covid-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic
Political polarization has dominated news coverage of Americans’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this research note, we report findings from two experimental studies, in which we present respondents with news stories about COVID-19 mitigation measures that emphasize partisan difference or accord. The stories present the same numeric facts about public opinion, but highlight either the partisan gap that existed at the time of the study, or …
Economic anxiety among contingent survey workers
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations
Gender gaps in partisanship, vote choice, and opinion are well documented in the American electorate. In 2016, men’s and women’s subjective economic evaluations—of their own circumstances and the broader economy—also diverged considerably. We investigate the size, structure, and explanations of this gap. Drawing on cross-sectional and panel data, we show that the gap widened to historic levels following Trump’s election, driven by increased optim…
Limits to asset manager adaptation
In Our Lives in Their Portfolios, Brett Christophers provides an account of the rise of 'asset manager society' - a world in which the infrastructures of public life are converted from public to private ownership. Here I use Christophers' analysis to comment on growing calls for asset manager investment in climate adaptation. The asset manager business model requires ever-escalating returns, a poor fit with the now unavoidable losses that climate…
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