Darren W Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darren W Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darren W |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6407-9430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 707 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The January 6th Insurrection and the Triggering of African Americans’ Racial Resentment
The January 6 th insurrection and its aftermath of obfuscation and denial were ostensibly racialized events. Under the guise of election fraud, white supremacists, white nationalists, and paramilitary groups attempted to overthrow established democratic procedures to retain a president who stoked racial antagonisms and racial divisions. African Americans, like many American citizens, watched in fear, anxiety, and foreboding as the groups most com…
Stop the Steal: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection
Our analysis of data from a nationally representative survey of adults shows that beliefs in whether the January 6th insurrection was justifiable and whether it required investigation through the creation of the U.S. House Select Committee are inexorably steeped in affective partisanship and racial resentment. It is easy to attribute the insurrection to partisan machinations, but evidence shows that racial resentment is the dominant explanation: …
Racial Resentment in the Political Mind
A thought-provoking look at how racial resentment, rather than racial prejudice alone, motivate a growing resistance among whites to improve the circumstances faced by racial minorities.0 In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson challenge the commonly held notion that all racial negativity, disagreements, and objections to policies that seek to help racial minorities stem from racial prejudice. They argue th…
The Prospect of Antiracism
Racial reckoning in response to racial injustice has compelled individuals, organizations, and institutions to acknowledge and adopt policies that actively challenge racial injustice. A central tenet of this era of reckoning is that it is no longer acceptable to ignore racist behaviors and expressions. To the extent that active opposition to racial prejudice is an effective strategy for individuals to pursue, we examine individual inclinations to…
The Racial Double Standard
In the wake of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, political observers were quick to assert that Barack Obama won the African American vote because he was Black, and more generally, that African Americans were motivated by race above all other considerations. As this racial reductionist stereotype has the potential to trivialize African Americans’ voting behavior and diminish the significance of the election of Barack Obama, this research e…
Appraisals of President Obama's economic performance: Racial resentment and attributional responsibility
Perseverance in the Parish?: Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective
A Discussion of Katherine J. Cramer's The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
The policies of Republican Governor Scott Walker have come to symbolize a resurgent assault on the public sector, and on public employee unions in particular, by the Republican Party. The fact that this is happening in Wisconsin, the state that in the last century was considered the “laboratory of Progressivism,” makes the politics surrounding these policies all the more compelling. In The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin …
How Racial Attitudes and Ideology Affect Political Rights for Felons
This research examines the extent to which negative attitudes toward African Americans influence public reactions to restoring political rights to felons. We argue that race-neutral policies, such as felon disenfranchisement laws, are non-separable from racial considerations, as images of criminals and felons are typically associated with Blacks. Such attitudes produce collateral consequences for felons, hampering the restoration of their full po…
Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion – By Donald R. Kinder and Cindy D. Kam
Reexamining Racial Resentment: Conceptualization and Content
There is an ongoing debate in the racial attitudes literature about the degree to which new racism measures actually tap negative racial beliefs. Racial resentment is one construct that has been criticized on such grounds. To date, Kinder and Sanders (1996) have proposed the most commonly utilized measure of racial resentment, which is largely based on a similar construct-symbolic racism. The authors enter this discussion by proposing and testing…
Civil Liberties vs. Security: Public Opinion in the Context of the Terrorist Attacks on America
In the tradition of research on political tolerance and democratic rights in context, this study uses a national survey of Americans conducted shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack on America to investigate people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for greater personal safety and security. We find that the greater people's sense of threat, the lower their support for civil liberties. This effect interacts, however, with trust in gov…
Civil Liberties vs. Security: Public Opinion in the Context of the Terrorist Attacks on America
In the tradition of research on political tolerance and democratic rights in context, this study uses a national survey of Americans conducted shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack on America to investigate people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for greater personal safety and security. We find that the greater people's sense of threat, the lower their support for civil liberties. This effect interacts, however, with trust in gov…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Stereotype Threat and Race of Interviewer Effects in a Survey on Political Knowledge
Stereotype Threat and Race of Interviewer Effects in a Survey on Political Knowledge
Social desirability is generally thought to underlie the propensity for survey respondents to tailor their answers to what they think would satisfy or please the interviewer. While this may in fact be the underlying motivation, especially on attitudinal and opinion questions, social desirability does not seem to be an adequate explanation for interviewer effects on factual questions. Borrowing from the social psychology literature on stereotype t…
The Antipathy of Black Nationalism: Behavioral and Attitudinal Implications of an African American Ideology
ideology. Controlling for the effects of age, demographic factors, social identity, and measurement artifacts, a strong black nationalist ideology is associated with greater disaffection toward whites, but not toward gays, black conservatives, lesbians, middle-class blacks, or feminists. A black nationalist belief system also correlates with intense perceptions of racism in society and less support for systemic means for combating per? ceived rac…
Individual Level Examination of Postmaterialism in the U. S: Political Tolerance, Racial Attitudes, Environmentalism, and Participatory Norms
Individual Level Examination of Postmaterialism in the U.S: Political Tolerance, Racial Attitudes, Environmentalism, -aand Participatory Norms
Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis is a theory of individual value change, yet tests of the postmaterialism thesis have occurred primarily on the macro level. Relatively little attention has been devoted to whether the anticipated changes toward a more economically secure, tolerant, participatory, environmentally conscious, and egalitarian culture are manifested in the values of individuals in society. This research explores the extent to which s…
Assessing the Validity of the Postmaterialism Index
Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis describes an individual-level process of value change. Little attention has been devoted to validating the responses to his postmaterialist-materialist index. The aggregate-level distributions may appear to reflect a postmaterialist-materialist dimension, even if at the individual level responses on the questions making up the index are random. The logic of the survey questions used for the index defines a basel…
Postmaterialism in World Societies: Is It Really a Value Dimension
We test the thesis that a materialism-postmaterialism value dimension underlies the twelve-item materialism-postmaterialism index used in the World Values Survey (WVS). Extending previous research on the logic of the four-item materialism-postmaterialism index which revealed fundamentally random response patterns in the United States, we focus on the logical and empirical relationships between the three four-item indexes that comprise the twelve-…
The Political and Social Relevancy of Malcolm X: The Stability of African American Political Attitudes
Typically, the political and ideological foundations of media-related events hold little significance for the alteration of political attitudes and behavior But this weak relationship may be attributed to weak stimuli, and the influence of different media events is likely to be dependent upon the strength with which certain political attitudes and beliefs are held We examine the extent to which a major media event-the film Malcolm X and its reinf…
Nonrandom Measurement Error and Race of Interviewer Effects Among African Americans
Journal Article Nonrandom Measurement Error and Race of Interviewer Effects Among African Americans Get access DARREN W. DAVIS DARREN W. DAVIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 183–207, https://doi.org/10.1086/297792 Published: 01 May 1997
The Direction of Race of Interviewer Effects among African-Americans: Donning the Black Mask
Theory: The discussion that takes place between African-American respondents and interviewers of different races is symbolic of the normal everyday sensitivity to race and strangers of different races. Race of interviewer effects can usefully serve as an indicator of evolving areas of interpersonal tension between AfricanAmericans and whites, and deserve to be treated as a fact of social life and not merely as an artifact of the survey interview.…
Exploring black political intolerance
Civil Liberties vs. Security: Public Opinion in the Context of the Terrorist Attacks on America
In the tradition of research on political tolerance and democratic rights in context, this study uses a national survey of Americans conducted shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack on America to investigate people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for greater personal safety and security. We find that the greater people's sense of threat, the lower their support for civil liberties. This effect interacts, however, with trust in gov…
Stereotype Threat and Race of Interviewer Effects in a Survey on Political Knowledge
Social desirability is generally thought to underlie the propensity for survey respondents to tailor their answers to what they think would satisfy or please the interviewer. While this may in fact be the underlying motivation, especially on attitudinal and opinion questions, social desirability does not seem to be an adequate explanation for interviewer effects on factual questions. Borrowing from the social psychology literature on stereotype t…
The Direction of Race of Interviewer Effects among African-Americans: Donning the Black Mask
Theory: The discussion that takes place between African-American respondents and interviewers of different races is symbolic of the normal everyday sensitivity to race and strangers of different races. Race of interviewer effects can usefully serve as an indicator of evolving areas of interpersonal tension between AfricanAmericans and whites, and deserve to be treated as a fact of social life and not merely as an artifact of the survey interview.…
Assessing the Validity of the Postmaterialism Index
Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis describes an individual-level process of value change. Little attention has been devoted to validating the responses to his postmaterialist-materialist index. The aggregate-level distributions may appear to reflect a postmaterialist-materialist dimension, even if at the individual level responses on the questions making up the index are random. The logic of the survey questions used for the index defines a basel…
Nonrandom Measurement Error and Race of Interviewer Effects Among African Americans
Journal Article Nonrandom Measurement Error and Race of Interviewer Effects Among African Americans Get access DARREN W. DAVIS DARREN W. DAVIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 183–207, https://doi.org/10.1086/297792 Published: 01 May 1997
The Antipathy of Black Nationalism: Behavioral and Attitudinal Implications of an African American Ideology
ideology. Controlling for the effects of age, demographic factors, social identity, and measurement artifacts, a strong black nationalist ideology is associated with greater disaffection toward whites, but not toward gays, black conservatives, lesbians, middle-class blacks, or feminists. A black nationalist belief system also correlates with intense perceptions of racism in society and less support for systemic means for combating per? ceived rac…
Reexamining Racial Resentment: Conceptualization and Content
There is an ongoing debate in the racial attitudes literature about the degree to which new racism measures actually tap negative racial beliefs. Racial resentment is one construct that has been criticized on such grounds. To date, Kinder and Sanders (1996) have proposed the most commonly utilized measure of racial resentment, which is largely based on a similar construct-symbolic racism. The authors enter this discussion by proposing and testing…
Postmaterialism in World Societies: Is It Really a Value Dimension
We test the thesis that a materialism-postmaterialism value dimension underlies the twelve-item materialism-postmaterialism index used in the World Values Survey (WVS). Extending previous research on the logic of the four-item materialism-postmaterialism index which revealed fundamentally random response patterns in the United States, we focus on the logical and empirical relationships between the three four-item indexes that comprise the twelve-…
How Racial Attitudes and Ideology Affect Political Rights for Felons
This research examines the extent to which negative attitudes toward African Americans influence public reactions to restoring political rights to felons. We argue that race-neutral policies, such as felon disenfranchisement laws, are non-separable from racial considerations, as images of criminals and felons are typically associated with Blacks. Such attitudes produce collateral consequences for felons, hampering the restoration of their full po…
Individual Level Examination of Postmaterialism in the U.S: Political Tolerance, Racial Attitudes, Environmentalism, -aand Participatory Norms
Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis is a theory of individual value change, yet tests of the postmaterialism thesis have occurred primarily on the macro level. Relatively little attention has been devoted to whether the anticipated changes toward a more economically secure, tolerant, participatory, environmentally conscious, and egalitarian culture are manifested in the values of individuals in society. This research explores the extent to which s…
The Political and Social Relevancy of Malcolm X: The Stability of African American Political Attitudes
Typically, the political and ideological foundations of media-related events hold little significance for the alteration of political attitudes and behavior But this weak relationship may be attributed to weak stimuli, and the influence of different media events is likely to be dependent upon the strength with which certain political attitudes and beliefs are held We examine the extent to which a major media event-the film Malcolm X and its reinf…
Exploring black political intolerance
Stop the Steal: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection
Our analysis of data from a nationally representative survey of adults shows that beliefs in whether the January 6th insurrection was justifiable and whether it required investigation through the creation of the U.S. House Select Committee are inexorably steeped in affective partisanship and racial resentment. It is easy to attribute the insurrection to partisan machinations, but evidence shows that racial resentment is the dominant explanation: …
The Prospect of Antiracism
Racial reckoning in response to racial injustice has compelled individuals, organizations, and institutions to acknowledge and adopt policies that actively challenge racial injustice. A central tenet of this era of reckoning is that it is no longer acceptable to ignore racist behaviors and expressions. To the extent that active opposition to racial prejudice is an effective strategy for individuals to pursue, we examine individual inclinations to…
The Racial Double Standard
In the wake of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, political observers were quick to assert that Barack Obama won the African American vote because he was Black, and more generally, that African Americans were motivated by race above all other considerations. As this racial reductionist stereotype has the potential to trivialize African Americans’ voting behavior and diminish the significance of the election of Barack Obama, this research e…
Individual Level Examination of Postmaterialism in the U. S: Political Tolerance, Racial Attitudes, Environmentalism, and Participatory Norms
Appraisals of President Obama's economic performance: Racial resentment and attributional responsibility
Civil Liberties vs. Security: Public Opinion in the Context of the Terrorist Attacks on America
In the tradition of research on political tolerance and democratic rights in context, this study uses a national survey of Americans conducted shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack on America to investigate people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for greater personal safety and security. We find that the greater people's sense of threat, the lower their support for civil liberties. This effect interacts, however, with trust in gov…
A Discussion of Katherine J. Cramer's The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
The policies of Republican Governor Scott Walker have come to symbolize a resurgent assault on the public sector, and on public employee unions in particular, by the Republican Party. The fact that this is happening in Wisconsin, the state that in the last century was considered the “laboratory of Progressivism,” makes the politics surrounding these policies all the more compelling. In The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin …
Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion – By Donald R. Kinder and Cindy D. Kam
Exploring black political intolerance
The Political and Social Relevancy of Malcolm X: The Stability of African American Political Attitudes
Typically, the political and ideological foundations of media-related events hold little significance for the alteration of political attitudes and behavior But this weak relationship may be attributed to weak stimuli, and the influence of different media events is likely to be dependent upon the strength with which certain political attitudes and beliefs are held We examine the extent to which a major media event-the film Malcolm X and its reinf…
Nonrandom Measurement Error and Race of Interviewer Effects Among African Americans
Journal Article Nonrandom Measurement Error and Race of Interviewer Effects Among African Americans Get access DARREN W. DAVIS DARREN W. DAVIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 183–207, https://doi.org/10.1086/297792 Published: 01 May 1997
The Direction of Race of Interviewer Effects among African-Americans: Donning the Black Mask
Theory: The discussion that takes place between African-American respondents and interviewers of different races is symbolic of the normal everyday sensitivity to race and strangers of different races. Race of interviewer effects can usefully serve as an indicator of evolving areas of interpersonal tension between AfricanAmericans and whites, and deserve to be treated as a fact of social life and not merely as an artifact of the survey interview.…
Assessing the Validity of the Postmaterialism Index
Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis describes an individual-level process of value change. Little attention has been devoted to validating the responses to his postmaterialist-materialist index. The aggregate-level distributions may appear to reflect a postmaterialist-materialist dimension, even if at the individual level responses on the questions making up the index are random. The logic of the survey questions used for the index defines a basel…
Postmaterialism in World Societies: Is It Really a Value Dimension
We test the thesis that a materialism-postmaterialism value dimension underlies the twelve-item materialism-postmaterialism index used in the World Values Survey (WVS). Extending previous research on the logic of the four-item materialism-postmaterialism index which revealed fundamentally random response patterns in the United States, we focus on the logical and empirical relationships between the three four-item indexes that comprise the twelve-…
Individual Level Examination of Postmaterialism in the U. S: Political Tolerance, Racial Attitudes, Environmentalism, and Participatory Norms
Individual Level Examination of Postmaterialism in the U.S: Political Tolerance, Racial Attitudes, Environmentalism, -aand Participatory Norms
Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis is a theory of individual value change, yet tests of the postmaterialism thesis have occurred primarily on the macro level. Relatively little attention has been devoted to whether the anticipated changes toward a more economically secure, tolerant, participatory, environmentally conscious, and egalitarian culture are manifested in the values of individuals in society. This research explores the extent to which s…
The Antipathy of Black Nationalism: Behavioral and Attitudinal Implications of an African American Ideology
ideology. Controlling for the effects of age, demographic factors, social identity, and measurement artifacts, a strong black nationalist ideology is associated with greater disaffection toward whites, but not toward gays, black conservatives, lesbians, middle-class blacks, or feminists. A black nationalist belief system also correlates with intense perceptions of racism in society and less support for systemic means for combating per? ceived rac…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Stereotype Threat and Race of Interviewer Effects in a Survey on Political Knowledge
Stereotype Threat and Race of Interviewer Effects in a Survey on Political Knowledge
Social desirability is generally thought to underlie the propensity for survey respondents to tailor their answers to what they think would satisfy or please the interviewer. While this may in fact be the underlying motivation, especially on attitudinal and opinion questions, social desirability does not seem to be an adequate explanation for interviewer effects on factual questions. Borrowing from the social psychology literature on stereotype t…
Civil Liberties vs. Security: Public Opinion in the Context of the Terrorist Attacks on America
In the tradition of research on political tolerance and democratic rights in context, this study uses a national survey of Americans conducted shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack on America to investigate people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for greater personal safety and security. We find that the greater people's sense of threat, the lower their support for civil liberties. This effect interacts, however, with trust in gov…
Civil Liberties vs. Security: Public Opinion in the Context of the Terrorist Attacks on America
In the tradition of research on political tolerance and democratic rights in context, this study uses a national survey of Americans conducted shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack on America to investigate people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for greater personal safety and security. We find that the greater people's sense of threat, the lower their support for civil liberties. This effect interacts, however, with trust in gov…
Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion – By Donald R. Kinder and Cindy D. Kam
Reexamining Racial Resentment: Conceptualization and Content
There is an ongoing debate in the racial attitudes literature about the degree to which new racism measures actually tap negative racial beliefs. Racial resentment is one construct that has been criticized on such grounds. To date, Kinder and Sanders (1996) have proposed the most commonly utilized measure of racial resentment, which is largely based on a similar construct-symbolic racism. The authors enter this discussion by proposing and testing…
How Racial Attitudes and Ideology Affect Political Rights for Felons
This research examines the extent to which negative attitudes toward African Americans influence public reactions to restoring political rights to felons. We argue that race-neutral policies, such as felon disenfranchisement laws, are non-separable from racial considerations, as images of criminals and felons are typically associated with Blacks. Such attitudes produce collateral consequences for felons, hampering the restoration of their full po…
Perseverance in the Parish?: Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective
A Discussion of Katherine J. Cramer's The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
The policies of Republican Governor Scott Walker have come to symbolize a resurgent assault on the public sector, and on public employee unions in particular, by the Republican Party. The fact that this is happening in Wisconsin, the state that in the last century was considered the “laboratory of Progressivism,” makes the politics surrounding these policies all the more compelling. In The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin …
The Racial Double Standard
In the wake of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, political observers were quick to assert that Barack Obama won the African American vote because he was Black, and more generally, that African Americans were motivated by race above all other considerations. As this racial reductionist stereotype has the potential to trivialize African Americans’ voting behavior and diminish the significance of the election of Barack Obama, this research e…
Appraisals of President Obama's economic performance: Racial resentment and attributional responsibility
Racial Resentment in the Political Mind
A thought-provoking look at how racial resentment, rather than racial prejudice alone, motivate a growing resistance among whites to improve the circumstances faced by racial minorities.0 In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson challenge the commonly held notion that all racial negativity, disagreements, and objections to policies that seek to help racial minorities stem from racial prejudice. They argue th…
The Prospect of Antiracism
Racial reckoning in response to racial injustice has compelled individuals, organizations, and institutions to acknowledge and adopt policies that actively challenge racial injustice. A central tenet of this era of reckoning is that it is no longer acceptable to ignore racist behaviors and expressions. To the extent that active opposition to racial prejudice is an effective strategy for individuals to pursue, we examine individual inclinations to…
Stop the Steal: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection
Our analysis of data from a nationally representative survey of adults shows that beliefs in whether the January 6th insurrection was justifiable and whether it required investigation through the creation of the U.S. House Select Committee are inexorably steeped in affective partisanship and racial resentment. It is easy to attribute the insurrection to partisan machinations, but evidence shows that racial resentment is the dominant explanation: …
The January 6th Insurrection and the Triggering of African Americans’ Racial Resentment
The January 6 th insurrection and its aftermath of obfuscation and denial were ostensibly racialized events. Under the guise of election fraud, white supremacists, white nationalists, and paramilitary groups attempted to overthrow established democratic procedures to retain a president who stoked racial antagonisms and racial divisions. African Americans, like many American citizens, watched in fear, anxiety, and foreboding as the groups most com…
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