Chris Girard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3631954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Girard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Girard |
| SIGNATURE | GIRARD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8848-9175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultural information dynamics and the rise of women in Norway’s state and military
The growing presence of women in the Norwegian state and military heralds an epoch-making, worldwide transformation. A key challenge is to explain why institutions which excluded women for more than a millennium no longer promote all-male membership. This tectonic shift is investigated with a data-based synthetical methodology. Multidisciplinary evidence going back five thousand years is combined with a graphical analysis of two centuries of time…
Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment Toward Economic Self-Sufficiency
This research examined the impact of participation in federal means-tested welfare programs on the attainment and maintenance of economic self-sufficiency. Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), this quasi-experimental investigation compartmentalized 4216 low-income households into an intervention group (n = 2436) and a comparison group (n = 1780). Households in the intervention group received one or more welfare benefits fo…
Immigrant use of public assistance and mode of entry
Exile Politics and R epublican P arty Affiliation
Objectives We test the hypothesis that exile politics—measured by support for anti‐ C astro policies—contribute to the overwhelming preference for the R epublican P arty among S outh F lorida's C uban A mericans. Methods Logistic regression is used to analyze six surveys conducted in S outh F lorida between 1995 and D ecember 2008. Results Among C uban A mericans in M iami‐ D ade C ounty, measures of exile politics account for a recent downward s…
The declining symbolic significance of the embargo for South Florida's Cuban Americans
Insulating an Ideology
Many Cuban Americans embrace a distinctive anti-Castro ideology. Although this ideology supports the embargo against Cuba—purportedly to bring about the Castro regime's compliance or collapse—the real objectives may be more symbolic than practical. Ultimately, the institutional completeness provided by the enclave in South Florida insulates and regenerates this “exile” ideology. The authors hypothesize that if more than one half of an immigrant's…
Recent Cuban Immigrants and Native-Born African Americans Leaving Welfare
Studies of the economic well-being of women leaving welfare generally focus on the efforts of the welfare leaver herself. We argue that it is also important to take into account the employment and earnings of others in her household. Among women in Miami-Dade County (Florida) who left welfare between October 1999 and January 2000, our data show that households with multiple earners fared far better than others across several indicators of economi…
Risky Sexual Behaviors among Substance-Abusing Adolescents
Findings are presented in an endeavor to extend the scope of understanding of HIV-related risky sexual behaviors among a multi-ethnic sample of youth in treatment for substance abuse. Cross-sectional data were collected in face-to-face interviews from 120 substance abusing adolescents undergoing treatment. Three separate multiple regression models were tested, one using a general measure of risky sexual behavior and the others using measures of s…
Age, Gender, and Suicide
Depuis le 19 eme siecle, les chercheurs ont des difficultes a expliquer les differences de sexe et d'âge concernant les risques de suicide. Presque universellement, les hommes se suicident davantage que les femmes. De plus, dans les pays industrialises, le risque tend a etre plus eleve pour les hommes âges et pour les femmes adultes. Les donnees concernant l'âge au suicide dans certains pays en voie de developpement sont totalement differentes. L…
Church Membership and Suicide Reconsidered
Age, Gender, and Suicide
Depuis le 19 eme siecle, les chercheurs ont des difficultes a expliquer les differences de sexe et d'âge concernant les risques de suicide. Presque universellement, les hommes se suicident davantage que les femmes. De plus, dans les pays industrialises, le risque tend a etre plus eleve pour les hommes âges et pour les femmes adultes. Les donnees concernant l'âge au suicide dans certains pays en voie de developpement sont totalement differentes. L…
Exile Politics and R epublican P arty Affiliation
Objectives We test the hypothesis that exile politics—measured by support for anti‐ C astro policies—contribute to the overwhelming preference for the R epublican P arty among S outh F lorida's C uban A mericans. Methods Logistic regression is used to analyze six surveys conducted in S outh F lorida between 1995 and D ecember 2008. Results Among C uban A mericans in M iami‐ D ade C ounty, measures of exile politics account for a recent downward s…
Insulating an Ideology
Many Cuban Americans embrace a distinctive anti-Castro ideology. Although this ideology supports the embargo against Cuba—purportedly to bring about the Castro regime's compliance or collapse—the real objectives may be more symbolic than practical. Ultimately, the institutional completeness provided by the enclave in South Florida insulates and regenerates this “exile” ideology. The authors hypothesize that if more than one half of an immigrant's…
The declining symbolic significance of the embargo for South Florida's Cuban Americans
Church Membership and Suicide Reconsidered
Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment Toward Economic Self-Sufficiency
This research examined the impact of participation in federal means-tested welfare programs on the attainment and maintenance of economic self-sufficiency. Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), this quasi-experimental investigation compartmentalized 4216 low-income households into an intervention group (n = 2436) and a comparison group (n = 1780). Households in the intervention group received one or more welfare benefits fo…
Immigrant use of public assistance and mode of entry
Church Membership and Suicide Reconsidered
Age, Gender, and Suicide
Depuis le 19 eme siecle, les chercheurs ont des difficultes a expliquer les differences de sexe et d'âge concernant les risques de suicide. Presque universellement, les hommes se suicident davantage que les femmes. De plus, dans les pays industrialises, le risque tend a etre plus eleve pour les hommes âges et pour les femmes adultes. Les donnees concernant l'âge au suicide dans certains pays en voie de developpement sont totalement differentes. L…
Risky Sexual Behaviors among Substance-Abusing Adolescents
Findings are presented in an endeavor to extend the scope of understanding of HIV-related risky sexual behaviors among a multi-ethnic sample of youth in treatment for substance abuse. Cross-sectional data were collected in face-to-face interviews from 120 substance abusing adolescents undergoing treatment. Three separate multiple regression models were tested, one using a general measure of risky sexual behavior and the others using measures of s…
Recent Cuban Immigrants and Native-Born African Americans Leaving Welfare
Studies of the economic well-being of women leaving welfare generally focus on the efforts of the welfare leaver herself. We argue that it is also important to take into account the employment and earnings of others in her household. Among women in Miami-Dade County (Florida) who left welfare between October 1999 and January 2000, our data show that households with multiple earners fared far better than others across several indicators of economi…
Insulating an Ideology
Many Cuban Americans embrace a distinctive anti-Castro ideology. Although this ideology supports the embargo against Cuba—purportedly to bring about the Castro regime's compliance or collapse—the real objectives may be more symbolic than practical. Ultimately, the institutional completeness provided by the enclave in South Florida insulates and regenerates this “exile” ideology. The authors hypothesize that if more than one half of an immigrant's…
The declining symbolic significance of the embargo for South Florida's Cuban Americans
Exile Politics and R epublican P arty Affiliation
Objectives We test the hypothesis that exile politics—measured by support for anti‐ C astro policies—contribute to the overwhelming preference for the R epublican P arty among S outh F lorida's C uban A mericans. Methods Logistic regression is used to analyze six surveys conducted in S outh F lorida between 1995 and D ecember 2008. Results Among C uban A mericans in M iami‐ D ade C ounty, measures of exile politics account for a recent downward s…
Immigrant use of public assistance and mode of entry
Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment Toward Economic Self-Sufficiency
This research examined the impact of participation in federal means-tested welfare programs on the attainment and maintenance of economic self-sufficiency. Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), this quasi-experimental investigation compartmentalized 4216 low-income households into an intervention group (n = 2436) and a comparison group (n = 1780). Households in the intervention group received one or more welfare benefits fo…
Cultural information dynamics and the rise of women in Norway’s state and military
The growing presence of women in the Norwegian state and military heralds an epoch-making, worldwide transformation. A key challenge is to explain why institutions which excluded women for more than a millennium no longer promote all-male membership. This tectonic shift is investigated with a data-based synthetical methodology. Multidisciplinary evidence going back five thousand years is combined with a graphical analysis of two centuries of time…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Demography (3 works)