Daniel Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0990-8237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 424 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The trust in government gap: National trust, local trust, and compliance
According to Tang and Huhe, individuals “are nested in a multiplicity of governments,” including national and local governments, “and . . . constantly find themselves in variant relationships with government at different levels”. Yet, previous research has mostly concentrated on individuals’ assessments of national governments, or supranational organizations such as the European Union, overlooking assessments of local governments and their effect…
From Caring to Killing: A Typology of Homicides and Homicide–Suicides Perpetrated by Caregivers
In the news media, there are regular reports of family caregivers killing the people for whom they care, but scholarly research on this phenomenon is fragmented, and there has been little effort to predict or prevent future deaths. The aim of this study was to develop a typology of caregiver-perpetrated homicides that could provide a framework for more rigorous research and targeted responses in policy and practice. Ideal Type Analysis was applie…
Contrasting Human Speech in Hebrews 12–13
This article will analyze an under-studied aspect of the Epistle to the Hebrews: human speech. In so doing, the author will show how the letter-writer creates an implicit comparison between the audience of the epistle and Moses, placing the audience in a position more privileged than Moses himself. The argument will proceed by justifying the scope of the material to be considered, Heb 12–13, then examining the few but significant instances of hum…
Impact of an outdoor loose parts play intervention on Nova Scotian preschoolers’ physical literacy: A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial
Biomed Central (ISRCTN14058106), 20/10/2017
Identities in flux? National and other changing identities during the Covid-19 pandemic
Social identities, such as identification with the nation, are regarded as core variables in explanations of political attitudes and behaviors. In these accounts, increases in the importance of an identity such as “Englishness” are often seen to be accompanied by decreases in the importance of other, more inclusive, identities such as “British” or “European.” At the same time, increases in exclusive national identities like “Englishness” present …
Authoritarianism, perceptions of security threats, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A new perspective
This article offers a new perspective on when and why individual-level authoritarian perceptions of security threats change. We reexamine claims that authoritarian members of the public responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in a counterintuitive fashion. The response was counterintuitive in that, rather than a desire for a stronger government with the ability to impose measures to address the pandemic and its consequences, authoritarian individuals …
The authoritarian dynamic and Brexit: Understanding the relationship between authoritarianism and wanting to leave the EU
Individual‐level authoritarianism is prominent in explanations of preferences for Brexit. We contend that extant accounts have provided an incomplete theoretical and empirical understanding of this relationship. Drawing on the idea of the ‘authoritarian dynamic’, we show that perceptions of the economic/cultural threat of immigration have stronger effects on the pro‐Brexit views of individuals with weak authoritarian predispositions (libertarians…
Parents and Children Should Be More Active Together to Address Physical Inactivity and Sedentary Behaviours
Increasing rates of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviours among children and the youth are important determinants of chronic disease. Supporting children's participation in organised physical activities like sports has been promoted as a public health strategy to increase physical activity. Evidence shows that successful interventions are family-focused, although research on how parental eating and physical activity behaviours influence ch…
The Wyman Fragment: A New Edition and Analysis with Radiocarbon Dating
The Wyman Fragment, or 0220, has been a chief and early witness to the text of Romans 4.23–5.3 since the initial publication of the recto in 1952. A 2005 edition of the verso, containing Rom 5.8–13, rendered most of that portion of the manuscript legible for the first time, but has not been widely circulated. In this article I present a new edition and analysis of 0220, a third- or fourth-century manuscript of Rom 4.23–5.13, in light of multispec…
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat
Research on authoritarianism has provided conflicting findings on its relationship with threat. Some studies indicate that in the face of heightened threat individuals with stronger authoritarian predispositions express more right‐wing and illiberal preferences; others suggest that it is individuals at the other end of the continuum, with weak authoritarian dispositions—libertarians—who are most likely to change and express such attitudes. Extant…
Male warriors and worried women? Understanding gender and perceptions of security threats
Differences between women and men in perceptions of security threats are firmly established in public opinion research, with the ‘male warrior’ and the ‘worried woman’ two well-documented stereotypes. Yet, we argue in this article, the differences are not as well understood as such labels, or the search for explanations, imply. One reason for this is the lack of dialogue between public opinion research and feminist security studies. In bringing t…
Projection Effects and the Role of Political Ambiguity
Scholars studying political perceptions find evidence of the presence of projection effects. Yet several questions still need to be explored as to the time frame of the effect and the factors affecting projection. In particular, although the effect of ambiguity on projection has often been assumed and has been tested in a formal model (Jensen, 2009), no empirical evidence supports the idea that ambiguity fosters projection. We analyze an online s…
A little justification goes a long way: Audience costs and the EU referendum
That governments may not always keep their election promises or that they change policy positions may be unsurprising. However, failed promises, backing down on threats or flip-flopping on policy positions may be associated with a loss in support. Bringing together literature on the politics of electoral promises, policy shifts and audience costs, we examine the conditions under which a political leader can back down on a promise, using the EU re…
Intermedia agenda setting in personalized campaigns: How news media influence the importance of leaders
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record
Model selection in observational media effects research: A systematic review and validation of effects
When Going to War Is Costly: A Comparative Study of Audiences and the Partisan Press
Much of the conventional wisdom about partisan media effects is based on the single case of the United States. Without more comparative research, we know little about whether the findings are generalizable, however, and thus cannot be certain of their causes. But comparative research presents several challenges. This paper takes advantage of the case of the War on Iraq to examine the effects of partisan press coverage on perceptions of leaders an…
Electoral Competitiveness and Turnout in British Elections, 1964–2010
Analyzing the British Election Study from 1964 to 2010, we examine the influence of electoral context on turnout, focusing on the closeness of elections in terms of lagged seat and constituency-level winning margins. Using cross-classified multilevel models to account for individual and contextual factors and disentangle life cycle, cohort- and election-specific effects, we find that closeness strongly affects voting behavior, particularly among …
Everyday Security Threats: Perceptions, Experiences, and Consequences
This book explores citizens’ perceptions and experiences of security threats in contemporary Britain, drawing on perspectives from International Security Studies and Political Psychology. The empirical chapters are based on twenty focus groups across six British cities and a large sample survey conducted between April and September 2012. These data are used to investigate the extent to which diverse publics share government framings of certain is…
Everyday security threats: Perceptions, experiences, and consequences
Everyday security threats explores public perceptions of security threats in contemporary Britain, using data from extensive fieldwork and drawing on perspectives from International Relations, security studies and political psychology
Manipulated vs. Measured: Using an Experimental Benchmark to Investigate the Performance of Self-Reported Media Exposure
Media exposure is one of the most important concepts in the social sciences, and yet scholars have struggled with how to operationalize it for decades. Some researchers have focused on the effects of variously worded self-report measures. Others advocate the use of aggregate and/or behavioral data that does not rely on a person’s ability to accurately recall exposure. Our study illustrates how an experimental design can be used to improve measure…
Parenthood and the polarisation of political attitudes in Europe
Becoming a parent can affect the lives of men and women by introducing salient new social roles and identities, altered social networks and tighter constraints on financial resources and time. Even though modern family life has evolved in many important respects, parenthood continues to shape the lives of men and women in very different ways. Given that parenthood can change the lives of men and women in profoundly different ways, it seems that i…
Citizens and Security Threats: Issues, Perceptions and Consequences Beyond the National Frame
Citizens are now central to national security strategies, yet governments readily admit that little is known about public opinion on security. This article presents a unique and timely examination of public perceptions of security threats. By focusing on thebreadthof security threats that citizens identify, their psychological origins, how they vary from personal to global levels, and the relationships between perceptions of threats and other pol…
Tobacco documents reveal questionable professional recertification by industry menthol expert
Jonathan Daniel Heck, PhD, a board certified toxicologist, career scientist at Lorillard Tobacco, and industry expert on menthol, served as an industry representative on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) from 2010 through 2014. In 2011, Heck was the lead author of the “Industry Menthol Report; Menthol Cigarettes: No Disproportionate Impact on Public Health”1 submitted to the FDA. To beco…
Partisanship and Perceptions of Fairness: Ignoring the Facts
This paper employs survey experiments to examine how contextualizing the claims made in negative political advertising affects perceptions of their fairness. This has implications for the components of fairness judgments, e.g., if “truth” is a component of fairness, being informed that a claim is untrue should undermine perceptions of its fairness, as well as for the efficacy of “fact-checking.” Our experiments on a random national telephone samp…
Studying Media Events in the European Social Surveys Across Research Designs, Countries, Time, Issues, and Outcomes
Scholars often study isolated media effects using one method at one time point in one country. We seek to generalise the research in this area by examining hundreds of press-worthy events across dozens of countries at various points in time with an array of techniques and outcome measures. In particular, we merge a database containing thousands of events with five waves of the European Social Survey to conduct analyses across countries and indivi…
Vernacular theories of everyday (in)security: The disruptive potential of non-elite knowledge
Citizens increasingly occupy a central role in the policy rhetoric of British National Security Strategies, and yet the technocratic methods by which risks and threats are assessed and prioritized do not consider the views and experiences of diverse publics. Equally, security studies in both ‘traditional’ and ‘critical’ guises has privileged analysis of elites over the political subject of threat and (in)security. Contributing to the recent ‘vern…
The Emotional Foundation of Political Cognition: The Impact of Extrinsic Anxiety on the Formation of Political Tolerance Judgments
Common sense recognizes emotion's ability to influence judgments. We argue that affective processes, in addition to generating feeling states, also influence how political cognition is manifested. Drawing on the theory of affective intelligence, we examine the role that anxiety plays in how and when people rely on predispositions and when they rely on contemporaneous information in making political tolerance judgments. We report on two experiment…
Authoritarian Attitudes, Democracy, and Policy Preferences among Latin American Elites
This article examines the prevalence and consequences of authoritarian attitudes among elites in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. We focus on the connection between antidemocratic elite attitudes and support for democracy; the causes and effects of authoritarian attitudes among elites and their implications for authoritarianism; and the impact of authoritarian attitudes beyond social policy preferences to other policy ar…
Citizens and Security Threats: Issues, Perceptions and Consequences Beyond the National Frame
Citizens are now central to national security strategies, yet governments readily admit that little is known about public opinion on security. This article presents a unique and timely examination of public perceptions of security threats. By focusing on thebreadthof security threats that citizens identify, their psychological origins, how they vary from personal to global levels, and the relationships between perceptions of threats and other pol…
What's Good for the Goose is Bad for the Gander: Negative Political Advertising, Partisanship, and Turnout
This study examines citizens' perceptions of fairness and legitimacy in political advertising. Using focus groups, an original national survey, and data on election 2000, as well as drawing on results from a replication of the national survey in 2004, we characterize political ads from the citizen's perspective. We then turn to the impact of "negative" advertising on voter turnout. Like several studies, we find circumstances under which turnout c…
Parenthood and the polarisation of political attitudes in Europe
Becoming a parent can affect the lives of men and women by introducing salient new social roles and identities, altered social networks and tighter constraints on financial resources and time. Even though modern family life has evolved in many important respects, parenthood continues to shape the lives of men and women in very different ways. Given that parenthood can change the lives of men and women in profoundly different ways, it seems that i…
Electoral Competitiveness and Turnout in British Elections, 1964–2010
Analyzing the British Election Study from 1964 to 2010, we examine the influence of electoral context on turnout, focusing on the closeness of elections in terms of lagged seat and constituency-level winning margins. Using cross-classified multilevel models to account for individual and contextual factors and disentangle life cycle, cohort- and election-specific effects, we find that closeness strongly affects voting behavior, particularly among …
Elements of Negativity: Volume and Proportion in Exposure to Negative Advertising
Surveys in Context
The value of cross-national surveys in examining how political and social contexts shape attitudes and behavior has been demonstrated over the past 20 years. Their vulnerabilities, such as measurement equivalence, have also received considerable attention. Less attention has been paid to how variations in the timing of the fieldwork may affect data quality. We investigate how the timing of the survey in the electoral cycle may affect survey coope…
Leadership Traits and Media Influence in Britain
Although party leaders are now assumed to play a more important role in parliamentary elections, little is known about how voters form opinions about leaders. In this article, we rely on theories of priming to investigate how media exposure influences leadership evaluations. The analysis is based on a unique examination of the nature and dynamics of leadership evaluations in Britain which combines survey data with media content data to investigat…
Getting Out the Vote: Minority Mobilization in a Presidential Election
Measuring Exposure to Political Advertising in Surveys
War and Elections
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Separate and Unequal Effects: Information, Political Sophistication and Negative Advertising in American Elections
This article examines the effects of negative political advertising in American elections. Studies of negative advertising have become unproductively bogged down on the question of whether or not more or less exposure to negative advertising leads to higher or lower turnout. I take a step back in the causal chain by looking at its effect on the kinds of information individuals bring to the voting decision. I present and test a theory that individ…
Issue evolution in B ritain: The debate on E uropean U nion integration, 1964–2010
While C armines and S timson's work on issue evolutions has prompted research showing the dynamics and effects of new party alignments on abortion, religion, gender and cultural issues, this research has all centred on the U nited S tates. This article examines issue evolution in B ritain. Using evidence on the timing of changes in elite positions from C omparative M anifestos G roup data, and survey data on public attitudes to the E uropean U ni…
Turf Wars: Local Context and Latino Political Development
Research demonstrates that competition over resources can have an important influence on minority political behavior. To date, however, the effects of these local conditions on Latino political behavior have gone largely unexamined. Employing a most similar case study design to overcome the lack of data on intragroup attitudes and political behavior nationally, we examine the voting behavior of Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics in two Florida counti…
Priming time for Blair? Media priming, Iraq, and leadership evaluations in Britain
Local News Coverage in a Social Capital Capital: Election 2000 on Minnesota's Local News Stations
This article examines local news coverage of an election in one of the nation's "social capital capitals," Minnesota. In Minnesota, according to theorized connections between civic involvement and news media use, we might expect the orientation of local news to be local and the quality of coverage of local campaigns to be high. Content analysis of all evening newscasts on all four non-cable channels in the Minneapolis market (the 13th largest tel…
Introduction: Civil society in Central Asia and the Caucasus
This volume of Central Asian Survey focuses on the specific theme of civil society and analyses how it applies in Central Asia and the South Caucasus (CASC). Civil society is a concept that has tra
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat
Research on authoritarianism has provided conflicting findings on its relationship with threat. Some studies indicate that in the face of heightened threat individuals with stronger authoritarian predispositions express more right‐wing and illiberal preferences; others suggest that it is individuals at the other end of the continuum, with weak authoritarian dispositions—libertarians—who are most likely to change and express such attitudes. Extant…
One voter and two choices: The impact of electoral context on the 2011 UK referendum
Cracking collaboration' between NGOs and academics in development research
This note argues that NGOs and academics are increasingly being pushed to collaborate by their respective ‘impact’ agendas. And a growing number of individuals who traverse both worlds are advocates for a much closer relationship to facilitate the theory-data interaction that lies at the heart of knowledge creation in international development. But different cultures and institutional constraints create challenges in making this collaboration wor…
Public Opinion and Public Policy: The Case of Kennedy and Civil Rights
This article pits the current competing perspectives on the causal connection between presidential policy making and public opinion‐that politicians are sensitive and responsive to movements in global public opinion, or public mood, over a range of issues as opposed to context‐ and issue‐specific opinion‐against each other in a case study of the Kennedy administration and civil rights policy. It finds that Kennedy's initial caution was the result…
Fair's Fair? Principles, Partisanship, and Perceptions of the Fairness of Campaign Rhetoric
This article considers the role of principles in perceptions of what constitutes acceptable rhetoric in election campaigns. Previous research suggests that citizens use principles of what is an acceptable attack in campaigns when evaluating charges and countercharges, while acknowledging that under some circumstances citizens accept rhetoric that would seem to breach their principles. This research has not adequately considered how partisanship c…
Manipulated vs. Measured: Using an Experimental Benchmark to Investigate the Performance of Self-Reported Media Exposure
Media exposure is one of the most important concepts in the social sciences, and yet scholars have struggled with how to operationalize it for decades. Some researchers have focused on the effects of variously worded self-report measures. Others advocate the use of aggregate and/or behavioral data that does not rely on a person’s ability to accurately recall exposure. Our study illustrates how an experimental design can be used to improve measure…
Public Opinion and Public Policy: The Case of Kennedy and Civil Rights
This article pits the current competing perspectives on the causal connection between presidential policy making and public opinion‐that politicians are sensitive and responsive to movements in global public opinion, or public mood, over a range of issues as opposed to context‐ and issue‐specific opinion‐against each other in a case study of the Kennedy administration and civil rights policy. It finds that Kennedy's initial caution was the result…
Separate and Unequal Effects: Information, Political Sophistication and Negative Advertising in American Elections
NGO– Mahalla partnerships: Exploring the potential for state–society synergy in Uzbekistan
The revival of the concept of civil society in the post-cold war era was aided in part by the ambiguity surrounding the term—a wide variety of political and social groups appropriated the concept f
Introduction: Civil society in Central Asia and the Caucasus
This volume of Central Asian Survey focuses on the specific theme of civil society and analyses how it applies in Central Asia and the South Caucasus (CASC). Civil society is a concept that has tra
Separate and Unequal Effects: Information, Political Sophistication and Negative Advertising in American Elections
This article examines the effects of negative political advertising in American elections. Studies of negative advertising have become unproductively bogged down on the question of whether or not more or less exposure to negative advertising leads to higher or lower turnout. I take a step back in the causal chain by looking at its effect on the kinds of information individuals bring to the voting decision. I present and test a theory that individ…
The Emotional Foundation of Political Cognition: The Impact of Extrinsic Anxiety on the Formation of Political Tolerance Judgments
Common sense recognizes emotion's ability to influence judgments. We argue that affective processes, in addition to generating feeling states, also influence how political cognition is manifested. Drawing on the theory of affective intelligence, we examine the role that anxiety plays in how and when people rely on predispositions and when they rely on contemporaneous information in making political tolerance judgments. We report on two experiment…
Local News Coverage in a Social Capital Capital: Election 2000 on Minnesota's Local News Stations
This article examines local news coverage of an election in one of the nation's "social capital capitals," Minnesota. In Minnesota, according to theorized connections between civic involvement and news media use, we might expect the orientation of local news to be local and the quality of coverage of local campaigns to be high. Content analysis of all evening newscasts on all four non-cable channels in the Minneapolis market (the 13th largest tel…
Authoritarian Attitudes, Democracy, and Policy Preferences among Latin American Elites
This article examines the prevalence and consequences of authoritarian attitudes among elites in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. We focus on the connection between antidemocratic elite attitudes and support for democracy; the causes and effects of authoritarian attitudes among elites and their implications for authoritarianism; and the impact of authoritarian attitudes beyond social policy preferences to other policy ar…
Local News and Perceptions of the Rhetoric of Political Advertising
As viewer numbers of national news have declined, local news has grown in importance as a source of political information. Yet prominent research into its effects concludes that its impact on political attitudes and behavior is minor. We theorize and demonstrate that the influence of local news may be indirect and subtle but nevertheless important. Using multiple methods, we show a clear relationship between perceptions of campaign rhetoric and w…
Political society and civil society in Uzbekistan—never the twain shall meet
The Andijan events of May 2005 gave rise to a flurry of media reporting, and an entrenchment of positions in an information war over perceptions of and policy towards Uzbekistan by the internationa
Mobilization, Demobilization and the Economy in American Elections
What motivates citizens to vote or abstain from voting? What determines vote choice? Models of turnout predominantly focus on a series of factors that affect perceptions of the benefits and costs of voting. The economy's influence on those perceptions has gone largely undeveloped. Models of vote choice routinely account for economic influences while ignoring turnout. This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of the economy as mob…
What's Good for the Goose is Bad for the Gander: Negative Political Advertising, Partisanship, and Turnout
This study examines citizens' perceptions of fairness and legitimacy in political advertising. Using focus groups, an original national survey, and data on election 2000, as well as drawing on results from a replication of the national survey in 2004, we characterize political ads from the citizen's perspective. We then turn to the impact of "negative" advertising on voter turnout. Like several studies, we find circumstances under which turnout c…
Measuring Exposure to Political Advertising in Surveys
Elements of Negativity: Volume and Proportion in Exposure to Negative Advertising
Osama or the Georges: Shifting Threats and State Policy towards Civil Society in Uzbekistan
In examining the relationship between the War on Terror and restrictions on civil society, Uzbekistan is an important case, given its emergence as a key player in the operations in Afghanistan, its own terrorist threat, and its particularly stringent policy towards civil society. This article argues that while the 'crackdown' on civil society has followed a similar pattern to that of other countries where civil society is perceived as harbouring …
Getting Out the Vote: Minority Mobilization in a Presidential Election
Priming time for Blair? Media priming, Iraq, and leadership evaluations in Britain
Tone Versus Information: Explaining the Impact of Negative Political Advertising
Recent findings from the literature on negative advertising conclude that its impact on campaign knowledge, interest, and turnout is beneficial. These conclusions are usually justified theoretically by the arguments that negativity prompts close attention in a way that positivity does not and that negative advertising contains more issue information than positive advertising. However, if negative advertising contains more issue information, we ca…
Issue evolution in B ritain: The debate on E uropean U nion integration, 1964–2010
While C armines and S timson's work on issue evolutions has prompted research showing the dynamics and effects of new party alignments on abortion, religion, gender and cultural issues, this research has all centred on the U nited S tates. This article examines issue evolution in B ritain. Using evidence on the timing of changes in elite positions from C omparative M anifestos G roup data, and survey data on public attitudes to the E uropean U ni…
Turf Wars: Local Context and Latino Political Development
Research demonstrates that competition over resources can have an important influence on minority political behavior. To date, however, the effects of these local conditions on Latino political behavior have gone largely unexamined. Employing a most similar case study design to overcome the lack of data on intragroup attitudes and political behavior nationally, we examine the voting behavior of Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics in two Florida counti…
Leadership Traits and Media Influence in Britain
Although party leaders are now assumed to play a more important role in parliamentary elections, little is known about how voters form opinions about leaders. In this article, we rely on theories of priming to investigate how media exposure influences leadership evaluations. The analysis is based on a unique examination of the nature and dynamics of leadership evaluations in Britain which combines survey data with media content data to investigat…
The UK's electoral reform referendum of May 2011
One voter and two choices: The impact of electoral context on the 2011 UK referendum
Cracking collaboration' between NGOs and academics in development research
This note argues that NGOs and academics are increasingly being pushed to collaborate by their respective ‘impact’ agendas. And a growing number of individuals who traverse both worlds are advocates for a much closer relationship to facilitate the theory-data interaction that lies at the heart of knowledge creation in international development. But different cultures and institutional constraints create challenges in making this collaboration wor…
Tobacco documents reveal questionable professional recertification by industry menthol expert
Jonathan Daniel Heck, PhD, a board certified toxicologist, career scientist at Lorillard Tobacco, and industry expert on menthol, served as an industry representative on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) from 2010 through 2014. In 2011, Heck was the lead author of the “Industry Menthol Report; Menthol Cigarettes: No Disproportionate Impact on Public Health”1 submitted to the FDA. To beco…
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