Robert Andersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Andersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 847 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection
Influential research shows that college graduates achieve similar labor market outcomes regardless of socioeconomic origin, leading to the view that a college degree is a “great equalizer.” Still, other evidence suggests that family background continues to shape labor market outcomes long after graduation, implying that college’s equalizing effect may largely reflect the characteristics of those who pursue higher education. However, the role of u…
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate
Lagged dependent variables (LDVs) are often used as predictors in ordinary least squares (OLS) models in the social sciences. Although several estimators are commonly employed, little is known about their relative merits in the presence of classical measurement error and different longitudinal processes. We assess the performance of four commonly used estimators: (1) the standard OLS estimator, (2) an average of past measures (AVG), (3) an instru…
The student mental health crisis: Assessing psychiatric and developmental explanatory models
INTRODUCTION: Student mental health problems are now commonly understood using a psychiatric model in which diagnosed anxiety and mood disorders are viewed to be so widespread as to constitute a crisis. Less attention is given to the role of developmental processes, such as identity formation and purpose, in understanding the types of distress current university students can experience. We fill this void by simultaneously assessing the effectiven…
Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes
It is widely accepted that support for government intervention is highest among people in lower socioeconomic positions, during economic recessions and in less prosperous countries. However, the relationship between income inequality and attitudes toward government intervention is less clear. We contribute new insights to both questions by exploring how subjective household income, economic prosperity, and income inequality interact to influence …
A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty
If we want to build authentic evidence-based policy, we need a strong descriptive foundation of evidence on the everyday experience of poverty. The National Poverty Study (NPS), which is currently in development, provides this foundation with a new "qualitative census" of the everyday conditions of poverty in rural, suburban, and urban sites. The NPS will allow us to build new evidence-based theories of poverty, evaluate and improve existing plac…
Liberalism and Postmaterialism in China: The Role of Social Class and Inequality
The postmaterialist thesis holds that postmaterialist and liberal values tend to be strongest in affluent locations and among people in higher socioeconomic positions. We demonstrate the degree to which China fails to conform to these expectations and seek to account for Chinese exceptionalism. We use multilevel models fitted to 2006 Chinese General Social Survey data to test the postmaterialist thesis. In general, we find expected associations f…
Democracy, women's rights, and public opinion in Tunisia
The Arab Spring demonstrated that public opinion can powerfully affect the region's political life. Tunisia is particularly important in this regard; it is the Arab country where democracy has taken firmest root and is therefore of enormous geopolitical significance insofar as it can serve as a model for other countries in the region. This article assesses the state of Tunisian democracy using data from a 2015 survey of 1580 Tunisian adults. It f…
How Social Class Shapes Attitudes on Economic Inequality: The Competing Forces of Self-Interest and Legitimation
Using survey data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and national-level statistics from various official sources, we explore how attitudes toward economic inequality are shaped by economic conditions across 24 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Consistent with the economic self-interest thesis, we find that where income inequality is low, those in lower economic positions tend to be less likely than those in higher econ…
Income Inequality and Popular Support for Redistributive Policies in Canada, 1993–2008
Using Canadian Election Study data, we explore the relationship between income inequality and popular support for redistribution in Canada between 1993 and 2008. We demonstrate that the relationship between inequality and attitudes toward redistribution tends to be positive within provinces but negative across them. We argue that two markedly different mechanisms explain this discrepancy. First, within any particular political and economic contex…
Social mobility in 20 modern societies: The role of economic and political context
Rational choice and the political bases of changing Israeli counterinsurgency strategy1
Israeli counterinsurgency doctrine holds that the persistent use of credible threat and disproportionate military force results in repeated victories that eventually teach the enemy the futility of aggression. The doctrine thus endorses classical rational choice theory's claim that narrow cost-benefit calculations shape fixed action rationales. This paper assesses whether Israel's strategic practice reflects its counterinsurgency doctrine by expl…
Education and occupational status in 14 countries: The Role of Educational Institutions and Labour Market Coordination
This article explores the role of national institutional factors - more specifically, the level of skill transparency of the education system and labour market coordination - in accounting for cross-national differences in the relationship between education and occupational status. Consistent with previous research, our findings suggest that skill transparency is the primary moderator. Countries with a highly transparent educational system (i.e.,…
Confidence in Political Institutions in Canada and the United States: Assessing the Interactive Role of Region and Race
This article uses nationally representative sample survey data to assess the confidence of Canadians and Americans in four major state institutions: the police; the civil service; the federal government; and political parties. Long-standing arguments suggest that Canadians are more trusting of government than Americans. Results, however, indicate small national differences, with variations within countries being much more important, especially fo…
Bridging and Bonding: Ethnic Background and Voluntary Association Activity in Canada
This paper is the first Canadian analysis to consider voluntary association activity among a large array of ethnic groups, using national sample survey data and applying multivariate controls. Findings from the Economy, Security, and Community Survey of 2000 indicate that most of Canada's major ethnic or racial minority groups differ little in their average number of voluntary association involvements. The main exceptions are relatively low level…
Nonparametric Methods for Modeling Nonlinearity in Regression Analysis
The linear model and related generalized linear model (GLM) are important tools for sociologists. If the relationships between y (or in the case of the GLM, the linear predictor η) and the xs are linear, these methods provide elegant summaries of the data. However, these methods fail to adequately model underlying relationships if they are characterized by complex nonlinear patterns. In such cases, nonparametric regression, which allows the funct…
American Politics X: Polarization and Its Discontents
Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies
Using hierarchical linear models fitted to data from the World Values Survey and national statistics for 35 countries, this article builds on the postmaterialist thesis by assessing the impact of economic inequality across and within nations on attitudes toward homosexuality. It provides evidence that tolerance tends to decline as national income inequality rises. For professionals and managers, the results also support the postmaterialist argume…
Sometimes a Great Notion: The Democrats and Their Rendezvous with Destiny The Courage of Our Convictions
Voluntary Association Activity in Quebec and English Canada: Assessing the Effects of Region and Language
This paper presents the first multivariate analysis of the combined effects of region and language on voluntary association membership in Canada. National survey data from 2000 indicate that Quebecers have the lowest average number of memberships, with Western Canadians highest and Atlantic and Ontario residents in between. Preliminary results also confirm that francophones report fewer memberships than anglophones. Findings from Poisson regressi…
Time-Crunch: Impact of Time Spent in Paid and Unpaid Work, and Its Division in Families
Roderic Beaujot, Robert Andersen, Time-Crunch: Impact of Time Spent in Paid and Unpaid Work, and Its Division in Families, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Summer, 2007), pp. 295-315
The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions
Economic theories of voting argue that party popularity and vote are heavily influenced by the performance of the economy. Inferences about the direction of causality between perceptions of the economy and party support remain questionable, however. This article evaluates the microfoundations of economic theories of voting and party popularity using multiwave panel data. We model the dynamic relationships between party support and retrospective e…
The View From Building 99
Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies: The Special Case of Women in the United States
This study assesses whether civic association activity has declined in four Western democracies: Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Influential accounts of decreasing civic engagement in the United States lead to the expectation of similar patterns in the other three nations. The authors test this hypothesis using data from time-use surveys of adult national samples for the mid-1960s to the late 1990s. One major f…
Political Knowledge and Enlightened Preferences: Party Choice Through the Electoral Cycle
This article adapts and tests the theory of enlightened preferences on two British electoral cycles: 1992–97 and 1997–2001. Using individual-level panel data, it extends previous work by explicitly incorporating the role of political knowledge. Its findings are generally very supportive of the theory. It is shown that knowledge of party platforms varies through both electoral cycles in a manner predicted by the theory; that is, it is highest imme…
Poder direcionador: Um Estudo Comparativo De Opinião Pública E Distribuição De Renda
Nos últimos anos, vários estudos têm examinado a influência da opinião pública sobre as políticas públicas, mas poucos têm considerado a influência da opinião sobre as condições sociais. São questões separadas, uma vez que as políticas podem não ter os efeitos pretendidos e a opinião pode influenciar diretamente os resultados, à parte das políticas públicas. Este trabalho examina a relação entre opinião pública e desigualdade de renda em uma amos…
The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions
Economic theories of voting argue that party popularity and vote are heavily influenced by the performance of the economy. Inferences about the direction of causality between perceptions of the economy and party support remain questionable, however. This article evaluates the microfoundations of economic theories of voting and party popularity using multiwave panel data. We model the dynamic relationships between party support and retrospective e…
Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies
Using hierarchical linear models fitted to data from the World Values Survey and national statistics for 35 countries, this article builds on the postmaterialist thesis by assessing the impact of economic inequality across and within nations on attitudes toward homosexuality. It provides evidence that tolerance tends to decline as national income inequality rises. For professionals and managers, the results also support the postmaterialist argume…
Political Knowledge and Enlightened Preferences: Party Choice Through the Electoral Cycle
This article adapts and tests the theory of enlightened preferences on two British electoral cycles: 1992–97 and 1997–2001. Using individual-level panel data, it extends previous work by explicitly incorporating the role of political knowledge. Its findings are generally very supportive of the theory. It is shown that knowledge of party platforms varies through both electoral cycles in a manner predicted by the theory; that is, it is highest imme…
Social Background, Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies
The primary goal of this article is to examine the impact of credential inflation on educational attainment in twentieth-century United States. To do so, we create a measure of 'intergenerational credential inflation' (intergeneration inflation factor) and include it in regression models predicting educational transitions. Using the General Social Surveys of 1972-2000, we find that people are generally less likely to invest in schooling if its va…
Education and occupational status in 14 countries: The Role of Educational Institutions and Labour Market Coordination
This article explores the role of national institutional factors - more specifically, the level of skill transparency of the education system and labour market coordination - in accounting for cross-national differences in the relationship between education and occupational status. Consistent with previous research, our findings suggest that skill transparency is the primary moderator. Countries with a highly transparent educational system (i.e.,…
Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies: The Special Case of Women in the United States
This study assesses whether civic association activity has declined in four Western democracies: Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Influential accounts of decreasing civic engagement in the United States lead to the expectation of similar patterns in the other three nations. The authors test this hypothesis using data from time-use surveys of adult national samples for the mid-1960s to the late 1990s. One major f…
Social mobility in 20 modern societies: The role of economic and political context
Nonparametric Methods for Modeling Nonlinearity in Regression Analysis
The linear model and related generalized linear model (GLM) are important tools for sociologists. If the relationships between y (or in the case of the GLM, the linear predictor η) and the xs are linear, these methods provide elegant summaries of the data. However, these methods fail to adequately model underlying relationships if they are characterized by complex nonlinear patterns. In such cases, nonparametric regression, which allows the funct…
By Popular Demand: The Effect of Public Opinion on Income Inequality
This paper examines the relationship between public support for wage differentials and actual income inequality using data from the World Values Surveys. The distribution of income is more equal in nations where public opinion is more egalitarian. There is some evidence that the opinions of people with higher incomes are more influential than those of people with low incomes. Although the estimated relationship is stronger in democracies, it is p…
Time to Read: Family Resources and Educational Outcomes in Britain
This paper explores the role of the family-in particular family background, family structure and social and cultural resources-in explaining educational achievement in Britain. We use extensive panel data to track the relationship between family characteristics and factors associated with educational attainment for individuals from birth to age 33. Our results show that although social class is an important predictor of academic ability and educa…
Voluntary Association Activity in Quebec and English Canada: Assessing the Effects of Region and Language
This paper presents the first multivariate analysis of the combined effects of region and language on voluntary association membership in Canada. National survey data from 2000 indicate that Quebecers have the lowest average number of memberships, with Western Canadians highest and Atlantic and Ontario residents in between. Preliminary results also confirm that francophones report fewer memberships than anglophones. Findings from Poisson regressi…
Do Newspapers Enlighten Preferences? Personal Ideology, Party Choice and the Electoral Cycle: The United Kingdom, 1992-1997
The Gelman-King theory of enlightened preferences holds that the mass media play an important role in enlightening vote choices during election campaigns in the United States. This article adapts this theory to the electoral cycle in Britain. It also expands the theory to consider the media's role in facilitating consistent attitudes. Using data from the 1992-1997 British Election Panel Study, the author finds that attitudinal consistency and enl…
Liberalism and Postmaterialism in China: The Role of Social Class and Inequality
The postmaterialist thesis holds that postmaterialist and liberal values tend to be strongest in affluent locations and among people in higher socioeconomic positions. We demonstrate the degree to which China fails to conform to these expectations and seek to account for Chinese exceptionalism. We use multilevel models fitted to 2006 Chinese General Social Survey data to test the postmaterialist thesis. In general, we find expected associations f…
Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes
It is widely accepted that support for government intervention is highest among people in lower socioeconomic positions, during economic recessions and in less prosperous countries. However, the relationship between income inequality and attitudes toward government intervention is less clear. We contribute new insights to both questions by exploring how subjective household income, economic prosperity, and income inequality interact to influence …
Rational choice and the political bases of changing Israeli counterinsurgency strategy1
Israeli counterinsurgency doctrine holds that the persistent use of credible threat and disproportionate military force results in repeated victories that eventually teach the enemy the futility of aggression. The doctrine thus endorses classical rational choice theory's claim that narrow cost-benefit calculations shape fixed action rationales. This paper assesses whether Israel's strategic practice reflects its counterinsurgency doctrine by expl…
Social cleavages, electoral reform and party choice: Israel's 'natural' experiment
Income Inequality and Popular Support for Redistributive Policies in Canada, 1993–2008
Using Canadian Election Study data, we explore the relationship between income inequality and popular support for redistribution in Canada between 1993 and 2008. We demonstrate that the relationship between inequality and attitudes toward redistribution tends to be positive within provinces but negative across them. We argue that two markedly different mechanisms explain this discrepancy. First, within any particular political and economic contex…
Time-Crunch: Impact of Time Spent in Paid and Unpaid Work, and Its Division in Families
Roderic Beaujot, Robert Andersen, Time-Crunch: Impact of Time Spent in Paid and Unpaid Work, and Its Division in Families, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Summer, 2007), pp. 295-315
A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty
If we want to build authentic evidence-based policy, we need a strong descriptive foundation of evidence on the everyday experience of poverty. The National Poverty Study (NPS), which is currently in development, provides this foundation with a new "qualitative census" of the everyday conditions of poverty in rural, suburban, and urban sites. The NPS will allow us to build new evidence-based theories of poverty, evaluate and improve existing plac…
Class, education and extreme party support in Germany, 1991–98
Using ALLBUS data from 1991–98, this article examines the effects of class and education on extreme party support – both on the left and on the right – in the reunited Germany. Our results suggest that the underlying considerations for extreme party support are similar for the left and for the right in both the East and West. Nonetheless, the structures of party support in the two regions differ, indicating the importance of fitting separate mode…
Democracy, women's rights, and public opinion in Tunisia
The Arab Spring demonstrated that public opinion can powerfully affect the region's political life. Tunisia is particularly important in this regard; it is the Arab country where democracy has taken firmest root and is therefore of enormous geopolitical significance insofar as it can serve as a model for other countries in the region. This article assesses the state of Tunisian democracy using data from a 2015 survey of 1580 Tunisian adults. It f…
Pre-election polls and the dynamics of the 1997 Canadian federal election
Bridging and Bonding: Ethnic Background and Voluntary Association Activity in Canada
This paper is the first Canadian analysis to consider voluntary association activity among a large array of ethnic groups, using national sample survey data and applying multivariate controls. Findings from the Economy, Security, and Community Survey of 2000 indicate that most of Canada's major ethnic or racial minority groups differ little in their average number of voluntary association involvements. The main exceptions are relatively low level…
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate
Lagged dependent variables (LDVs) are often used as predictors in ordinary least squares (OLS) models in the social sciences. Although several estimators are commonly employed, little is known about their relative merits in the presence of classical measurement error and different longitudinal processes. We assess the performance of four commonly used estimators: (1) the standard OLS estimator, (2) an average of past measures (AVG), (3) an instru…
The Polls and the 1995 Quebec Referendum
We examine 23v oter polls reported in the news media during the two-month period preceding the 1995 Quebec sov ereignty referendum. Contrary to common interpretations of the course of the referendum campaign, we find that there was a smooth and general increase in support for the sov ereignty option during this period, and that Lucien Bouchard's dramatic interv ention on behalf of the `yes' campaign on October 9 apparently had little e#ect onv ot…
The Polls and the 1995 Quebec Referendum
We examine 23v oter polls reported in the news media during the two-month period preceding the 1995 Quebec sov ereignty referendum. Contrary to common interpretations of the course of the referendum campaign, we find that there was a smooth and general increase in support for the sov ereignty option during this period, and that Lucien Bouchard's dramatic interv ention on behalf of the `yes' campaign on October 9 apparently had little e#ect onv ot…
Pre-election polls and the dynamics of the 1997 Canadian federal election
Class, education and extreme party support in Germany, 1991–98
Using ALLBUS data from 1991–98, this article examines the effects of class and education on extreme party support – both on the left and on the right – in the reunited Germany. Our results suggest that the underlying considerations for extreme party support are similar for the left and for the right in both the East and West. Nonetheless, the structures of party support in the two regions differ, indicating the importance of fitting separate mode…
Do Newspapers Enlighten Preferences? Personal Ideology, Party Choice and the Electoral Cycle: The United Kingdom, 1992-1997
The Gelman-King theory of enlightened preferences holds that the mass media play an important role in enlightening vote choices during election campaigns in the United States. This article adapts this theory to the electoral cycle in Britain. It also expands the theory to consider the media's role in facilitating consistent attitudes. Using data from the 1992-1997 British Election Panel Study, the author finds that attitudinal consistency and enl…
Social cleavages, electoral reform and party choice: Israel's 'natural' experiment
Time to Read: Family Resources and Educational Outcomes in Britain
This paper explores the role of the family-in particular family background, family structure and social and cultural resources-in explaining educational achievement in Britain. We use extensive panel data to track the relationship between family characteristics and factors associated with educational attainment for individuals from birth to age 33. Our results show that although social class is an important predictor of academic ability and educa…
Political Knowledge and Enlightened Preferences: Party Choice Through the Electoral Cycle
This article adapts and tests the theory of enlightened preferences on two British electoral cycles: 1992–97 and 1997–2001. Using individual-level panel data, it extends previous work by explicitly incorporating the role of political knowledge. Its findings are generally very supportive of the theory. It is shown that knowledge of party platforms varies through both electoral cycles in a manner predicted by the theory; that is, it is highest imme…
Poder direcionador: Um Estudo Comparativo De Opinião Pública E Distribuição De Renda
Nos últimos anos, vários estudos têm examinado a influência da opinião pública sobre as políticas públicas, mas poucos têm considerado a influência da opinião sobre as condições sociais. São questões separadas, uma vez que as políticas podem não ter os efeitos pretendidos e a opinião pode influenciar diretamente os resultados, à parte das políticas públicas. Este trabalho examina a relação entre opinião pública e desigualdade de renda em uma amos…
Social Background, Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies
The primary goal of this article is to examine the impact of credential inflation on educational attainment in twentieth-century United States. To do so, we create a measure of 'intergenerational credential inflation' (intergeneration inflation factor) and include it in regression models predicting educational transitions. Using the General Social Surveys of 1972-2000, we find that people are generally less likely to invest in schooling if its va…
By Popular Demand: The Effect of Public Opinion on Income Inequality
This paper examines the relationship between public support for wage differentials and actual income inequality using data from the World Values Surveys. The distribution of income is more equal in nations where public opinion is more egalitarian. There is some evidence that the opinions of people with higher incomes are more influential than those of people with low incomes. Although the estimated relationship is stronger in democracies, it is p…
The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions
Economic theories of voting argue that party popularity and vote are heavily influenced by the performance of the economy. Inferences about the direction of causality between perceptions of the economy and party support remain questionable, however. This article evaluates the microfoundations of economic theories of voting and party popularity using multiwave panel data. We model the dynamic relationships between party support and retrospective e…
The View From Building 99
Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies: The Special Case of Women in the United States
This study assesses whether civic association activity has declined in four Western democracies: Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Influential accounts of decreasing civic engagement in the United States lead to the expectation of similar patterns in the other three nations. The authors test this hypothesis using data from time-use surveys of adult national samples for the mid-1960s to the late 1990s. One major f…
Sometimes a Great Notion: The Democrats and Their Rendezvous with Destiny The Courage of Our Convictions
Voluntary Association Activity in Quebec and English Canada: Assessing the Effects of Region and Language
This paper presents the first multivariate analysis of the combined effects of region and language on voluntary association membership in Canada. National survey data from 2000 indicate that Quebecers have the lowest average number of memberships, with Western Canadians highest and Atlantic and Ontario residents in between. Preliminary results also confirm that francophones report fewer memberships than anglophones. Findings from Poisson regressi…
Time-Crunch: Impact of Time Spent in Paid and Unpaid Work, and Its Division in Families
Roderic Beaujot, Robert Andersen, Time-Crunch: Impact of Time Spent in Paid and Unpaid Work, and Its Division in Families, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Summer, 2007), pp. 295-315
American Politics X: Polarization and Its Discontents
Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies
Using hierarchical linear models fitted to data from the World Values Survey and national statistics for 35 countries, this article builds on the postmaterialist thesis by assessing the impact of economic inequality across and within nations on attitudes toward homosexuality. It provides evidence that tolerance tends to decline as national income inequality rises. For professionals and managers, the results also support the postmaterialist argume…
Confidence in Political Institutions in Canada and the United States: Assessing the Interactive Role of Region and Race
This article uses nationally representative sample survey data to assess the confidence of Canadians and Americans in four major state institutions: the police; the civil service; the federal government; and political parties. Long-standing arguments suggest that Canadians are more trusting of government than Americans. Results, however, indicate small national differences, with variations within countries being much more important, especially fo…
Bridging and Bonding: Ethnic Background and Voluntary Association Activity in Canada
This paper is the first Canadian analysis to consider voluntary association activity among a large array of ethnic groups, using national sample survey data and applying multivariate controls. Findings from the Economy, Security, and Community Survey of 2000 indicate that most of Canada's major ethnic or racial minority groups differ little in their average number of voluntary association involvements. The main exceptions are relatively low level…
Nonparametric Methods for Modeling Nonlinearity in Regression Analysis
The linear model and related generalized linear model (GLM) are important tools for sociologists. If the relationships between y (or in the case of the GLM, the linear predictor η) and the xs are linear, these methods provide elegant summaries of the data. However, these methods fail to adequately model underlying relationships if they are characterized by complex nonlinear patterns. In such cases, nonparametric regression, which allows the funct…
Education and occupational status in 14 countries: The Role of Educational Institutions and Labour Market Coordination
This article explores the role of national institutional factors - more specifically, the level of skill transparency of the education system and labour market coordination - in accounting for cross-national differences in the relationship between education and occupational status. Consistent with previous research, our findings suggest that skill transparency is the primary moderator. Countries with a highly transparent educational system (i.e.,…
Rational choice and the political bases of changing Israeli counterinsurgency strategy1
Israeli counterinsurgency doctrine holds that the persistent use of credible threat and disproportionate military force results in repeated victories that eventually teach the enemy the futility of aggression. The doctrine thus endorses classical rational choice theory's claim that narrow cost-benefit calculations shape fixed action rationales. This paper assesses whether Israel's strategic practice reflects its counterinsurgency doctrine by expl…
Social mobility in 20 modern societies: The role of economic and political context
How Social Class Shapes Attitudes on Economic Inequality: The Competing Forces of Self-Interest and Legitimation
Using survey data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and national-level statistics from various official sources, we explore how attitudes toward economic inequality are shaped by economic conditions across 24 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Consistent with the economic self-interest thesis, we find that where income inequality is low, those in lower economic positions tend to be less likely than those in higher econ…
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