Adam Mayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Mayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayer |
| SIGNATURE | MAYER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4129-5004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Turkish drone triumph in the non‐Western world – background to the world-famous Bayraktar TB2 drones
Turkey has made exponential progress in producing drones in the last two decades, and due to high technological standards and competitive pricing, there are foreign customers for these Turkish products. The most famous is the Bayraktar TB2 drone of company Baykar, which is combat-proven in the last decade. The experience increased the sales of the product and strengthened trust in it. The Bayraktar TB2 drone became the most famous and worldwide k…
Igbo separatism, political anti-Judaism in Nigeria under the Buhari administration (2015–2023)
The relatively recent religious phenomenon of Nigerian Igbo normative Judaism was subjected to political power pressures in ways that endangered the movement’s internal coherence, as well as its members’ safety in Nigeria under the Buhari administration (2015–2023). The federal country was being torn apart by terrorism and secession. There was, on the one hand, a movement in Nigerian Igbo Messianic ‘Jewish’ circles, away from Protestant doctrine …
The Western Sahara Fiasco of 1899: Thwarted Colonial Aspirations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the African Continent
Spain in 1898–99 intended to lease “its” West African colony, Rio de Oro, today’s Western Sahara, to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. This article presents new archival evidence in order to show why this initiative was thwarted. The authors conclude that the Austro-Hungarian Empire failed to acquire colonies in Western Sahara and elsewhere due to the lack of appropriate means, opportunities, and also the internal Hungarian resistance; coupled with …
Calibration in policy design: Rethinking Targets of Energy-Efficiency Rebates
Policy instruments are often presumed to shape a defined target population’s behaviour, yet the way those instruments are calibrated – their micro-characteristics and accountability rules – can alter who is governed. This article examines how calibration reshapes policy targets, using the case of Xcel Energy’s Quality Installation rebate programme for residential cooling in Denver, Colorado (2020–23). We show how rules that require certified cont…
Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023
Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 explores African Marxist theory and the intellectual merits of Afro-Maxist schools of thought to show how they have developed and impacted sub-Saharan Africa from the Cold War to the present. He also discusses the efficacy of the movements influenced by Marxism and how they are contested today. Through in-depth research, Mayer answers the following questions: …
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States
The transition to a more sustainable energy system must consider public perceptions of energy sources and the influences that shape them. This study compares support for renewable and non-renewable sources that make up the energy grid in Brazil and the United States (US), two nations with different energy mixes, political histories, and media systems. Through national surveys, we assess how different national energy configurations impact attitude…
Victimhood, partisan identities, and media consumption in the US
Administrative resilience under pressure: Environmental governance and institutional adaptation
Digging Deeper: Examining Oil and Gas Violations in Pennsylvania From 2010 to 2022
Objective This study assesses the factors associated with the identification of oil and gas violations as reported by street‐level bureaucrats, for example, oil and gas inspectors. Findings, we suggest, contribute to broader debates about regulatory compliance and environmental governance. Methods To accomplish the above, we built a novel dataset of over 300,000 oil and gas inspectors conducted in Pennsylvania between 2010 and 2022 along with a r…
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan
Resurgent Africa: A Socialist Past, a Multipolar Present: Introduction
Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023
Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa's Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 explores African Marxist theory and the intellectual merits of Afro-Maxist schools of thought to show how they have developed and impacted sub-Saharan Africa from the Cold War to the present. He also discusses the efficacy of the movements influenced by Marxism and how they are contested today. Through in-depth research, Mayer answers the following questions: …
Introduction to Nigeria: Balkanization Ahead
Introduction to Nigeria: Balkanization Ahead
Can solar energy become polarized? Understanding the role of expressive and negative partisanship in support for solar tax credits
Up close, it gets worse: Comparison of hydropower perceptions between impacted populations in the Amazon and those of the Brazilian population as a whole
In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, addressing the global demand for affordable and clean energy is paramount. While hydropower is often perceived as meeting both criteria, its true merits are subject to debate. This paper delves into energy preferences within Brazil, with a specific focus on hydropower, the nation's predominant energy source. It takes on a unique challenge previously unexplored in the literature by investigating…
Nigerian Radicalism: Towards a New Definition via a Historical Survey
Recent military coups in West Africa have put the continent’s democratisation itself into question. In some places, for the moment, these coups appear to have popular backing. Nigeria, where radicalism is firmly rooted in democratic values and a human-rights framework, the radical grassroots opposition to the Buhari government’s creeping authoritarianism lies drenched in blood. The roots of this development go back to the history of Nigeria’s rad…
Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in the Brazilian Amazon—have impacted energy source…
Naija, the missing spectacle: Guidebooks on Nigeria in the neoliberal era
Nigeria, long a quintessential terrain for the expatriate gaze more than the tourist gaze, has now very nearly disappeared as a topic from standard Western issued guidebooks. The gap in publications was very noticeable by the second decade of the 21st century, but it came as a culmination of the country’s diminishing role in those for the last four neoliberal decades. The country has apparently lost its identifiable role as spectacle in global ca…
Exporting security to Africa at its most volatile: The GAR-SI Sahel project and the role of Spain’s Guardia Civil in rebuilding Sahelian security
Through research based on participant observations, interviews, the application of the Delphi technique and a SWOT analysis, this paper presents a qualitative evaluation of the first phase of the GAR-SI Sahel project, a major project that aims to bring security to the world’s poorest, as well as most volatile, region: the Sahel. Seven experts from military institutes in France, Portugal and Italy participated in the study, as well as six instruct…
Violence and identity in modern Nigeria: Inchoate feudalization in a failing polity
Nigeria, a failing state with the second highest incidence of terrorist attacks worldwide and a simmering, low intensity civil conflict as well as protest and secessionist movements, is a place where intersectionality does not stop at class or at gender. Nigeria’s structural violence and atrocities happen at the intersection of ethnic, religious, sub-religious, linguistic, and occupational groups, as well as class and sex. It is a polity where in…
Multidimensional partisanship shapes climate policy support and behaviours
Conspiratorial Ideation Is Associated with Lower Perceptions of Policy Effectiveness: Views from Local Governments during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Governments around the world struggled to formulate an effective response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which was hampered by the widespread diffusion of various conspiracy theories about the virus. Local governments are often responsible for the implementing mitigation measures such as mask mandates and curfews but have received very limited attention in the scholarly literature. In this article, the authors use data from local polic…
Un‘covering’ blanket bonds: Assessing the adoption of blanket bonds across the states
Media and partisanship in energy transition: Towards a new synthesis
Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S
Multiple municipalities in the U.S. have banned natural gas hook-ups in new home construction. Several state governments have pre-empted those bans. Yet little is known about public perceptions of natural gas appliances in the home. We used survey data to evaluate risk perceptions associated with natural gas appliances and investigate potential demographic and ideological effects on risk perceptions. We find little political polarization or “whit…
A social trap for the climate? Collective action, trust and climate change risk perception in 35 countries
A just transition for coal miners? Community identity and support from local policy actors
Fracking Fortunes: Economic Well-being and Oil and Gas Development along the Urban-Rural Continuum
Oil and gas extraction, especially via unconventional means like hydraulic fracturing, is hailed as an economic boon by many commentators and political leaders. However, empirical evidence is limited. In this article, we consider the socioeconomic effects (particularly, related to poverty, employment, income, and wages) of unconventional oil and gas extraction using a national data set of U.S. counties. We use a novel between- and within-county r…
Risk and benefits in a fracking boom: Evidence from Colorado
Environmental Risk Exposure, Risk Perception, Political Ideology and Support for Climate Policy
The degree to which risk perceptions are socially constructed versus the result of actual exposure to risk is highly contested; how risk exposure and risk perception influence policy attitudes is also poorly understood. We examine how personal exposure to risk factors impacts risk perceptions and policy support related to air pollution and climate change. Our selection of risk exposure variables is informed by the “mental models” literature, and …
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil
National energy transition, local partisanship? Elite cues, community identity, and support for clean power in the United States
Rethinking Economic Conditions and Environmental Attitudes: Macroeconomic Effects, Individual Experiences, and Subjectivity
The global environmental concern literature has focused on economic development as a contextual predictor of environmental attitudes with conflicting empirical results. Some studies, informed by postmaterialist theory or the affluence hypothesis, find that national affluence increases environmental concern, whereas others find the opposite. In this article, we qualify the economy and environmental attitude relationship by arguing that it has seve…
Community economic identity and colliding treadmills in oil and gas governance
How should unconventional oil and gas be regulated? The role of natural resource dependence and economic insecurity
Education, political affiliation and energy policy in the United States: A case of Tea Party exceptionalism
Who is to blame? Nostalgia, Partisanship, and the death of coal
The U.S. energy sector has undergone significant changes in the last few decades with three converging trends – the implosion of the coal industry, the marked increase in domestically produced oil and gas, and the increasing viability of renewables. The implosion of coal has proven to be a contentious political issue, with conservative discourse placing the blame for the industry’s poor fortunes on the administration of former President Obama and…
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism: Why Concerned People Acquiesce to the Oil and Gas Industry 1
In the US, unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production has elicited strong public response. As production occurs amid residential and commercial spaces, environmental, social, economic, regulatory, and mental health impacts have been documented across locations. Some community groups have mobilized against this activity, while others have not. We examine how and why UOG production becomes normalized despite its disruptions and risks. Through year…
For the love of sun and wind? Proximity to renewable energy facilities and support for renewable power across time and space in the United States
Understanding Self-Rated Health and Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in Three Colorado Communities
Domestic, onshore oil and gas production has increased substantially in the United States in the last ∼20 years, creating a range of positive and negative impacts on communities. In this paper, we add to the growing literature on unconventional oil and gas production (a.k.a., “fracking”) and well-being by evaluating the association between self-reported stress induced by local oil and gas development and subjective well-being in the form of self-…
Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado's oil fields: Evidence for triple movement activism
Unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) has spurred an unprecedented boom in onshore production in the US. Despite a surge in related research, a void exists regarding inquiries into policy outcomes and perceptions. To address this, support for federal regulatory exemptions for UOGE is examined using survey data collected in 2015 from two Northern Colorado communities. Current regulatory exemptions for UOGE can be understood as components of…
The Fist in the Face of God: Heavy Metal Music and Decentralized Cultural Diffusion
The purpose of this paper is to explain the timing and location of the diffusion of heavy metal music. We use data from an Internet archive to measure the population-adjusted rate of metal band foundings in 150 countries for the 1991-2008 period. We hypothesize that growth in 'digital capacity' (Internet and personal computer use) catalyzed the diffusion of metal music. We include time-varying controls for gross national income, political regime,…
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self-Rated Health in the Amazon
Nations in the global South have developed hydropower projects at a rapid pace in recent decades, most notably Brazil and China. These projects have long-documented impacts on social and ecological systems, yet the implications of hydropower for human well-being and health are not fully understood. In this paper, we examine eight Brazilian Amazon communities in the Madeira river basin, near the Jirau and Santo Antônio dams (sample size: 536 house…
Quality of life and unconventional oil and gas development: Towards a comprehensive impact model for host communities
Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in the Brazilian Amazon—have impacted energy source…
Concerned about coal: Security, dependence, and vulnerability among coal dependent communities in western Colorado
Keep it local? Preferences for federal, state, or local unconventional oil and gas regulations
The Dual Importance of Political Identity in Environmental Governance: The Case of Oil and Gas Policy in Colorado
Over the past decade, the U.S. has had significant growth in oil and gas production due in large part to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”); and yet, we know little about public preferences for oil and gas regulations. Political identity is a strong predictor of policy support in other arenas. The purpose of this analysis is to clarify the role of political identity in support for oil and gas policy. We hypothesized that political identity has a d…
Ifeoma Okoye: Socialist-feminist political horizons in Nigerian literature
Nigerian author Ifeoma Okoye’s novel The Fourth World , published in 2013, presents us with a truly 21st century African unified socialist-feminist theory, while it places individual growth firmly in the community of an eponymous shanty in Enugu, Igboland. Through this novel, we observe how dictates of survival are transformed into acts of moral choice through the agency of work by a young girl of extraordinary character, helped by the congeniali…
Unhollowing rural America? Rural human capital flight and the demographic consequences of the oil and gas boom
Education and the environment: An international study
More educated people typically care more about the environment and are more willing to support environmental policy than people with less formal education. However, the relationship between education and environmental outcomes at the population level has been less studied. Using international data and panel regression techniques, this paper shows that increases in national investment in education and access to education increase fossil fuel usage…
The Fist in the Face of God: Heavy Metal Music and Decentralized Cultural Diffusion
The purpose of this paper is to explain the timing and location of the diffusion of heavy metal music. We use data from an Internet archive to measure the population-adjusted rate of metal band foundings in 150 countries for the 1991-2008 period. We hypothesize that growth in 'digital capacity' (Internet and personal computer use) catalyzed the diffusion of metal music. We include time-varying controls for gross national income, political regime,…
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
Rethinking Economic Conditions and Environmental Attitudes: Macroeconomic Effects, Individual Experiences, and Subjectivity
The global environmental concern literature has focused on economic development as a contextual predictor of environmental attitudes with conflicting empirical results. Some studies, informed by postmaterialist theory or the affluence hypothesis, find that national affluence increases environmental concern, whereas others find the opposite. In this article, we qualify the economy and environmental attitude relationship by arguing that it has seve…
Risk and benefits in a fracking boom: Evidence from Colorado
Education, political affiliation and energy policy in the United States: A case of Tea Party exceptionalism
In the name of the great work: Stalin’s plan for the transformation of nature and its impact in Eastern Europe
Quality of life and unconventional oil and gas development: Towards a comprehensive impact model for host communities
Community economic identity and colliding treadmills in oil and gas governance
Social Capital, Economic Hardship, and Health: A Test of the Buffering Hypothesis in Transition and Nontransition Countries
Social capital is positively associated with a number of health outcomes, and it is theorized that social capital serves as a “buffer” during economic hard times, reducing the negative quality of life impacts of economic hardship. Using self-rated health as the outcome variable, we test whether social capital modifies the effect of economic hardship in a sample of 35 transition and non-transition countries and multilevel ordinal logistic regressi…
Environmental Risk Exposure, Risk Perception, Political Ideology and Support for Climate Policy
The degree to which risk perceptions are socially constructed versus the result of actual exposure to risk is highly contested; how risk exposure and risk perception influence policy attitudes is also poorly understood. We examine how personal exposure to risk factors impacts risk perceptions and policy support related to air pollution and climate change. Our selection of risk exposure variables is informed by the “mental models” literature, and …
Will Democratization Save the Climate? An Entropy-Balanced, Random Slope Study
Democratization might be instrumental in addressing climate change on a global scale but the effect of democracy on carbon dioxide emissions is unclear. Treadmill of production (TOP) theory implies that democracy may increase emissions as publics pressure governments for increased economic growth. On the other hand, theories aligned with a rational choice perspective and ecological modernization perspectives suggest that democracy will reduce emi…
Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado's oil fields: Evidence for triple movement activism
Unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) has spurred an unprecedented boom in onshore production in the US. Despite a surge in related research, a void exists regarding inquiries into policy outcomes and perceptions. To address this, support for federal regulatory exemptions for UOGE is examined using survey data collected in 2015 from two Northern Colorado communities. Current regulatory exemptions for UOGE can be understood as components of…
Energy Transition and Rural Hospital Closure: Leaving Rural America Behind
Starting in the 2000s, the U.S. energy system entered a period of rapid transition, with a marked decline in coal extraction, a boom in domestic oil and gas production, and increased deployment of renewable sources. Economically marginalized rural populations tend to have less access to health services than their metropolitan counterparts and stand to make significant gains from this energy transition. However, during the 2010–2015 period, severa…
Scalar controversies in oil and gas governance: Perspectives on who should regulate the oil and gas industry from policy actors in Colorado and Utah
Keep it local? Preferences for federal, state, or local unconventional oil and gas regulations
National energy transition, local partisanship? Elite cues, community identity, and support for clean power in the United States
A social trap for the climate? Collective action, trust and climate change risk perception in 35 countries
The Dual Importance of Political Identity in Environmental Governance: The Case of Oil and Gas Policy in Colorado
Over the past decade, the U.S. has had significant growth in oil and gas production due in large part to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”); and yet, we know little about public preferences for oil and gas regulations. Political identity is a strong predictor of policy support in other arenas. The purpose of this analysis is to clarify the role of political identity in support for oil and gas policy. We hypothesized that political identity has a d…
How should unconventional oil and gas be regulated? The role of natural resource dependence and economic insecurity
Ifeoma Okoye: Socialist-feminist political horizons in Nigerian literature
Nigerian author Ifeoma Okoye’s novel The Fourth World , published in 2013, presents us with a truly 21st century African unified socialist-feminist theory, while it places individual growth firmly in the community of an eponymous shanty in Enugu, Igboland. Through this novel, we observe how dictates of survival are transformed into acts of moral choice through the agency of work by a young girl of extraordinary character, helped by the congeniali…
Unhollowing rural America? Rural human capital flight and the demographic consequences of the oil and gas boom
A just transition for coal miners? Community identity and support from local policy actors
Contingency, cost, and a fracking ban: Extending sociological research with the contingent valuation method
Documenting patterns of environmental concerns has been a core effort of environmental sociology since the founding of the sub-discipline. Environmental economists, on the other hand, are pre-occupied with the valuation of non-market goods like ecosystems services and environmental policy. In this article, we argue that sociologists should cautiously embrace non-market valuation methods, particularly the contingent valuation method. We provide a …
Political science (50 works) · Economics (42 works) · Politics (31 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Business (27 works) · Law (26 works) · Engineering (23 works) · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (19 works) · Political economy (18 works)