Joel A Devine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel A Devine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Devine |
| SIGNATURE | DEVINE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Built Environment
Historically, “built environment” referred to all elements of the human‐made physical environment, that is, it stood in contrast to the natural environment. Specific use of the term varies widely and is not altogether consistent within or across disciplines, in large measure owing to the functional division of labor that fosters divergent spheres of attention. Such differences are conceptual and applied in practice. For instance, traditionally am…
Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles
Unequal Return: The Uneven Resettlements of New Orleans’ Uptown Neighborhoods
This article examines early resettlement of four neighborhoods in New Orleans’ Uptown district, which was among the first areas to officially reopen for residential return. Drawing on survey data collected from more than 400 households, results show that even in relatively unflooded sections of town, racial and class disparities shaped early returns and accumulated to the disadvantage of African American residents of the city. A key mechanism beh…
Built Environment
At its most basic level, the built environment refers to all elements of the human‐made physical environment, i.e., it is defined in contrast to the natural environment. Dunlap and Catton's (1983) distinction between the “built,” the “modified,” and the “natural” environments is heuristically useful inasmuch as it more readily acknowledges the intermediate, mediative, and continuous possibilities of interaction and reciprocal relations between an…
Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless
Losing the housing game: The leveling effects of substance abuse
Analysis of the housing dynamics and individual characteristics of a sample of 670 participants in the New Orleans Homeless Substance Abusers Program reveals substantial diversity with respect to income, education, and occupational attainment. Nevertheless, drug consumption and dependence serve as socioeconomic levelers, dissolving otherwise potentially critical differences in human-capital and economic capacities. The need to focus concurrently …
Housing dynamics of the homeless: Implications for a count
Housing dynamics of homeless people limit all efforts to count them. Data on 60-day housing histories from a sample of homeless substance abusers in New Orleans show that homeless people spend relatively few nights in locations that would make them potentially countable, no matter how thorough the enumeration procedure
The Greatest of Evils: Urban Poverty and the American Underclass
This volume, develops three principal themes. First, poverty is not monolithic; secondly, the so-called underclass within the poverty population represents a new and corrosive development; and, third, the War on Poverty of the 1960s offered a boldness of vision that today's poverty policies tend to lack. The authors show how the social and economic costs of poverty-related problems were linked at the policy level to finding useable remedies. The …
Unhousing the Urban Poor: The Reagan Legacy
The Reagan era was characterized by the popularity of individual level explanations and market based solutions for a range of social problems, including homelessness. We argue that such an approach was inadequate and may, in fact, have toorsened the housing situation. We claim that homelessness is fundamentally a housing problem linked to two key trends of the 1980s: the increasing rate of poverty and the declining supply'f low-income housing. Ma…
The Chronicity of Poverty: Evidence from the PSID, 1968-1987
An essential result from the poverty research of the 1970s was an indication that much poverty urns episodic, in contrast to then-conventional stereotypes about the poor. However, recent treatments of poverty in the U.S. have emphasized the increase of chronic poverty. This study tests the hypothesis of increasing intragenerational chronicity by using a series of multiyear windows that track income experiences of households from the Panel Study o…
Crime and Unemployment: Effects across Age and Race Categories
Despite numerous studies, the nature of the unemployment-crime relationship remains controversial. The relationship should be clearer for some segments of the population than for others, but is obscured by the use of general population data. Exploring this possibility through the use of a model developed by Cantor and Land (1985), a time-series analysis is conducted to determine relationships among age- and race-specific rates of unemployment and…
Minimum wage, maximum hokum
Macroeconomic and Social-Control Policy Influences on Crime Rate Changes, 1948-1985
Informed by the insights of political economy, this study investigates the often-presumed though empirically elusive relationship between societal economic distress and crime. In a social-indicators model, we argue for including both unemployment and inflation rates as measures of the overall health of the economy. We contend that in the face of these destabilizing economic conditions, government engages in dualistic social control policies. On o…
Redistribution in a Bifurcated Welfare State: Quintile Shares and the U. S. Case
The present analysis is part of an ongoing study of the determinants, structure, and consequences of the U.S. welfare state. In this paper, we explore the bifurcated structure of U.S. social welfare spending, the differential growth of “social consumption” and “social expense” outlays, and the redistributional impact of these expenditures on quintile shares of personal income. Results of a time-series regression analysis (1949–1977) indicate that…
Social Welfare Spending: Accounting for Changes from 1950 to 1978
One More Time: Militarizing the U.S. Budget: Reply to Jencks
State and State Expenditure: Determinants of Social Investment and Social Consumption Spending in the Postwar United States
The conventional logic of industrialization thesis holds that escalations in public expenditures are a response to industrial maturation and attendant sociocultural and demographic transformations, with a neutral state arbitrating differing needs via the electoral aggregation of citizen preferences to promote the general welfare. The present research develops an alternative conception of the liberal capitalist state and state expenditure policy. …
Slicing the Pie: Classes and the Distributive Effects of Post-WWII U.S.Governmental Fiscal Policies
Time series analysis of the relative class income distributional consequences of postwar U.S. fiscal practices reveals that governmental revenue policies have had a procapital bias while state expenditures have tended to favor labor. The net impact of these processes has served to leave the marketgenerated income distribution largely intact, despite the historically unprecedented growth of the public sector during this period. Finally, in light o…
Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Economics
Fiscal Policy and Class Income Inequality: The Distributional Consequences of Governmental Revenues and Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976
Despite the vast expansion in governmental spending during the post-Second World War era, few researchers have sought to analyze the income distributional consequences of state fiscal policies. The present research initially elaborates three abstract perspectives on the state and on United States budgetary practices. Then, using factor share income as a proxy for broad class groupings, this research provides a time-series regression analysis of t…
On the Economic and Political Determinants of Welfare Spending in the Post-World War II Era
Monopoly Capital, Organized Labor, and Military Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976
In this paper we systematically assess the neo-Marxian view that military expenditures are used by the state as a countercyclical fiscal policy either to forestall a serious recession or to facilitate economic recovery. In particular, we examine the post-World War II political-economic experience of the United States, because the military expenditures thesis was most fully developed initially in an attempt to explain postwar American prosperity. …
Macroeconomic and Social-Control Policy Influences on Crime Rate Changes, 1948-1985
Informed by the insights of political economy, this study investigates the often-presumed though empirically elusive relationship between societal economic distress and crime. In a social-indicators model, we argue for including both unemployment and inflation rates as measures of the overall health of the economy. We contend that in the face of these destabilizing economic conditions, government engages in dualistic social control policies. On o…
Fiscal Policy and Class Income Inequality: The Distributional Consequences of Governmental Revenues and Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976
Despite the vast expansion in governmental spending during the post-Second World War era, few researchers have sought to analyze the income distributional consequences of state fiscal policies. The present research initially elaborates three abstract perspectives on the state and on United States budgetary practices. Then, using factor share income as a proxy for broad class groupings, this research provides a time-series regression analysis of t…
Crime and Unemployment: Effects across Age and Race Categories
Despite numerous studies, the nature of the unemployment-crime relationship remains controversial. The relationship should be clearer for some segments of the population than for others, but is obscured by the use of general population data. Exploring this possibility through the use of a model developed by Cantor and Land (1985), a time-series analysis is conducted to determine relationships among age- and race-specific rates of unemployment and…
On the Economic and Political Determinants of Welfare Spending in the Post-World War II Era
State and State Expenditure: Determinants of Social Investment and Social Consumption Spending in the Postwar United States
The conventional logic of industrialization thesis holds that escalations in public expenditures are a response to industrial maturation and attendant sociocultural and demographic transformations, with a neutral state arbitrating differing needs via the electoral aggregation of citizen preferences to promote the general welfare. The present research develops an alternative conception of the liberal capitalist state and state expenditure policy. …
The Chronicity of Poverty: Evidence from the PSID, 1968-1987
An essential result from the poverty research of the 1970s was an indication that much poverty urns episodic, in contrast to then-conventional stereotypes about the poor. However, recent treatments of poverty in the U.S. have emphasized the increase of chronic poverty. This study tests the hypothesis of increasing intragenerational chronicity by using a series of multiyear windows that track income experiences of households from the Panel Study o…
Unhousing the Urban Poor: The Reagan Legacy
The Reagan era was characterized by the popularity of individual level explanations and market based solutions for a range of social problems, including homelessness. We argue that such an approach was inadequate and may, in fact, have toorsened the housing situation. We claim that homelessness is fundamentally a housing problem linked to two key trends of the 1980s: the increasing rate of poverty and the declining supply'f low-income housing. Ma…
Redistribution in a Bifurcated Welfare State: Quintile Shares and the U. S. Case
The present analysis is part of an ongoing study of the determinants, structure, and consequences of the U.S. welfare state. In this paper, we explore the bifurcated structure of U.S. social welfare spending, the differential growth of “social consumption” and “social expense” outlays, and the redistributional impact of these expenditures on quintile shares of personal income. Results of a time-series regression analysis (1949–1977) indicate that…
One More Time: Militarizing the U.S. Budget: Reply to Jencks
Monopoly Capital, Organized Labor, and Military Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976
In this paper we systematically assess the neo-Marxian view that military expenditures are used by the state as a countercyclical fiscal policy either to forestall a serious recession or to facilitate economic recovery. In particular, we examine the post-World War II political-economic experience of the United States, because the military expenditures thesis was most fully developed initially in an attempt to explain postwar American prosperity. …
Fiscal Policy and Class Income Inequality: The Distributional Consequences of Governmental Revenues and Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976
Despite the vast expansion in governmental spending during the post-Second World War era, few researchers have sought to analyze the income distributional consequences of state fiscal policies. The present research initially elaborates three abstract perspectives on the state and on United States budgetary practices. Then, using factor share income as a proxy for broad class groupings, this research provides a time-series regression analysis of t…
On the Economic and Political Determinants of Welfare Spending in the Post-World War II Era
Slicing the Pie: Classes and the Distributive Effects of Post-WWII U.S.Governmental Fiscal Policies
Time series analysis of the relative class income distributional consequences of postwar U.S. fiscal practices reveals that governmental revenue policies have had a procapital bias while state expenditures have tended to favor labor. The net impact of these processes has served to leave the marketgenerated income distribution largely intact, despite the historically unprecedented growth of the public sector during this period. Finally, in light o…
Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Economics
Social Welfare Spending: Accounting for Changes from 1950 to 1978
One More Time: Militarizing the U.S. Budget: Reply to Jencks
State and State Expenditure: Determinants of Social Investment and Social Consumption Spending in the Postwar United States
The conventional logic of industrialization thesis holds that escalations in public expenditures are a response to industrial maturation and attendant sociocultural and demographic transformations, with a neutral state arbitrating differing needs via the electoral aggregation of citizen preferences to promote the general welfare. The present research develops an alternative conception of the liberal capitalist state and state expenditure policy. …
Redistribution in a Bifurcated Welfare State: Quintile Shares and the U. S. Case
The present analysis is part of an ongoing study of the determinants, structure, and consequences of the U.S. welfare state. In this paper, we explore the bifurcated structure of U.S. social welfare spending, the differential growth of “social consumption” and “social expense” outlays, and the redistributional impact of these expenditures on quintile shares of personal income. Results of a time-series regression analysis (1949–1977) indicate that…
Macroeconomic and Social-Control Policy Influences on Crime Rate Changes, 1948-1985
Informed by the insights of political economy, this study investigates the often-presumed though empirically elusive relationship between societal economic distress and crime. In a social-indicators model, we argue for including both unemployment and inflation rates as measures of the overall health of the economy. We contend that in the face of these destabilizing economic conditions, government engages in dualistic social control policies. On o…
Minimum wage, maximum hokum
Unhousing the Urban Poor: The Reagan Legacy
The Reagan era was characterized by the popularity of individual level explanations and market based solutions for a range of social problems, including homelessness. We argue that such an approach was inadequate and may, in fact, have toorsened the housing situation. We claim that homelessness is fundamentally a housing problem linked to two key trends of the 1980s: the increasing rate of poverty and the declining supply'f low-income housing. Ma…
The Chronicity of Poverty: Evidence from the PSID, 1968-1987
An essential result from the poverty research of the 1970s was an indication that much poverty urns episodic, in contrast to then-conventional stereotypes about the poor. However, recent treatments of poverty in the U.S. have emphasized the increase of chronic poverty. This study tests the hypothesis of increasing intragenerational chronicity by using a series of multiyear windows that track income experiences of households from the Panel Study o…
Crime and Unemployment: Effects across Age and Race Categories
Despite numerous studies, the nature of the unemployment-crime relationship remains controversial. The relationship should be clearer for some segments of the population than for others, but is obscured by the use of general population data. Exploring this possibility through the use of a model developed by Cantor and Land (1985), a time-series analysis is conducted to determine relationships among age- and race-specific rates of unemployment and…
Housing dynamics of the homeless: Implications for a count
Housing dynamics of homeless people limit all efforts to count them. Data on 60-day housing histories from a sample of homeless substance abusers in New Orleans show that homeless people spend relatively few nights in locations that would make them potentially countable, no matter how thorough the enumeration procedure
The Greatest of Evils: Urban Poverty and the American Underclass
This volume, develops three principal themes. First, poverty is not monolithic; secondly, the so-called underclass within the poverty population represents a new and corrosive development; and, third, the War on Poverty of the 1960s offered a boldness of vision that today's poverty policies tend to lack. The authors show how the social and economic costs of poverty-related problems were linked at the policy level to finding useable remedies. The …
Losing the housing game: The leveling effects of substance abuse
Analysis of the housing dynamics and individual characteristics of a sample of 670 participants in the New Orleans Homeless Substance Abusers Program reveals substantial diversity with respect to income, education, and occupational attainment. Nevertheless, drug consumption and dependence serve as socioeconomic levelers, dissolving otherwise potentially critical differences in human-capital and economic capacities. The need to focus concurrently …
Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless
Built Environment
At its most basic level, the built environment refers to all elements of the human‐made physical environment, i.e., it is defined in contrast to the natural environment. Dunlap and Catton's (1983) distinction between the “built,” the “modified,” and the “natural” environments is heuristically useful inasmuch as it more readily acknowledges the intermediate, mediative, and continuous possibilities of interaction and reciprocal relations between an…
Unequal Return: The Uneven Resettlements of New Orleans’ Uptown Neighborhoods
This article examines early resettlement of four neighborhoods in New Orleans’ Uptown district, which was among the first areas to officially reopen for residential return. Drawing on survey data collected from more than 400 households, results show that even in relatively unflooded sections of town, racial and class disparities shaped early returns and accumulated to the disadvantage of African American residents of the city. A key mechanism beh…
Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles
Built Environment
Historically, “built environment” referred to all elements of the human‐made physical environment, that is, it stood in contrast to the natural environment. Specific use of the term varies widely and is not altogether consistent within or across disciplines, in large measure owing to the functional division of labor that fosters divergent spheres of attention. Such differences are conceptual and applied in practice. For instance, traditionally am…
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