Ruth S Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3964587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth S Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth S |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1732-838X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Following Powell’s Lead and Expanding the Agenda
These comments emphasize the contributions of Lynda Powell’s work on state-level campaign finance. That work is theoretically rich and analytically rigorous, and suggests that the context of contributing behaviors is a key variable often ignored. Logical extensions of her study suggest the need for (1) extensive, comparative, data collection, (2) additional topics of inquiry, and (3) the use of complementary approaches to better understand the ro…
Gathering the Evidence: Photovoice as a Tool for Disability Advocacy
The participatory research method Photovoice capitalizes on the spirit of the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words." We, a group of 10 individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and our project facilitator, used Photovoice as means to advocate for equal access to community resources. Often people with disabilities encounter difficulties in helping the able-bodied population to understand issues that are faced by persons who use wheelchai…
Financing Campaigns: Macro Level Innovation and Micro Level Response
Financing Campaigns: Macro Level Innovation and Micro Level Response
State Campaign Fund Raising: Targets and Response
The extent to which campaign contributors are solicited by, and respond to, four different fund-raising techniques--direct mail, telephone, personal face-to-face, and group appeal--are reported. Data from contributors in two states indicate that there is significant variation in the use of all four modes of solicitation, and each apparently reaches and motivates somewhat different populations. The data also suggest that many contributors give wit…
Strategic Contributing in Legislative Campaigns: The Case of Minnesota
This article examines the relationship between the sources of campaign contributions and state legislative candidates' incumbency status, party, and need for funds. The findings here support many of the same conclusions that studies of congressional campaign funding have reached. However, they also indicate that political parties and PACs differ from each other in their patterns of giving when the competitiveness of the state legislative race is …
State Polls: Promising Data Sources for Political Research
This research note suggests that the image of statewide polls as erratic bases for election predictions belies their reliability and usefulness as sources of information for basic scientific research. Data on partisanship from three different polling organizations, over a seven-year period, for fourteen different states, are presented to indicate that there is minimal interorganization variation among the three sources of data, a remarkable stabi…
News Media and Politicization: American Youth 1969-1975
This study analyzes change in news media usage among thirteenand seventeen-year-old students, compares TV, radio, and newspaper attention levels, and considers changes in news topics of interest to teenagers during the Vietnam-Watergate era. The data are from national surveys conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 1969 and 1975. By 1975, American youth of both age groups watched less TV news, listened to less radio news, …
State Public Campaign Finance: Implications for Partisan Politics
Between 1972 and 1980 seventeen states enacted legislation to provide public funding of state-level election campaigns. These public campaign funding programs vary on four key policy dimensions. States are treated as laboratories of in which variations on a common policy have been introduced and are examined systematically. Assessment of the partisan impact of public campaign policies reveals that the majority party is generally advantaged in abs…
Democratic Values and Preadult Virtues: Tolerance, Knowledge, and Participation
Racial Patterns and School District Policy
Local control allows flexibility, but in this sample of school systems there was only limited adaptation as the systems were desegregated
Institutional Change and Socialization Research: The School and Politicization
Community Participation as Pedagogy: Its Effects on Political Attitudes of Black Students
The traditional literature on participatory democracy and more recent studies of regime support and system maintenance suggest the need for citizens to perceive that they can have influence on the political system (efficacy), that the system is fair in its response to citizen input (cynicism), and that citizen input is possible and obligatory (citizen duty).1 The documentation of low efficacy, high cynicism, and low levels of citizen participatio…
Evaluating Student Involvement as a Technique for Improving Citizenship Education
Teachers: Socialized While Socializing
Teachers, Change, and Political Socialization
Issue Saliency, Opinion-Holding, and Party Preference
Issue Saliency, Opinion-Holding, and Party Preference
Teachers as Agents of Political Socialization
State Public Campaign Finance: Implications for Partisan Politics
Between 1972 and 1980 seventeen states enacted legislation to provide public funding of state-level election campaigns. These public campaign funding programs vary on four key policy dimensions. States are treated as laboratories of in which variations on a common policy have been introduced and are examined systematically. Assessment of the partisan impact of public campaign policies reveals that the majority party is generally advantaged in abs…
Strategic Contributing in Legislative Campaigns: The Case of Minnesota
This article examines the relationship between the sources of campaign contributions and state legislative candidates' incumbency status, party, and need for funds. The findings here support many of the same conclusions that studies of congressional campaign funding have reached. However, they also indicate that political parties and PACs differ from each other in their patterns of giving when the competitiveness of the state legislative race is …
State Campaign Fund Raising: Targets and Response
The extent to which campaign contributors are solicited by, and respond to, four different fund-raising techniques--direct mail, telephone, personal face-to-face, and group appeal--are reported. Data from contributors in two states indicate that there is significant variation in the use of all four modes of solicitation, and each apparently reaches and motivates somewhat different populations. The data also suggest that many contributors give wit…
Financing Campaigns: Macro Level Innovation and Micro Level Response
State Polls: Promising Data Sources for Political Research
This research note suggests that the image of statewide polls as erratic bases for election predictions belies their reliability and usefulness as sources of information for basic scientific research. Data on partisanship from three different polling organizations, over a seven-year period, for fourteen different states, are presented to indicate that there is minimal interorganization variation among the three sources of data, a remarkable stabi…
Democratic Values and Preadult Virtues: Tolerance, Knowledge, and Participation
Gathering the Evidence: Photovoice as a Tool for Disability Advocacy
The participatory research method Photovoice capitalizes on the spirit of the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words." We, a group of 10 individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and our project facilitator, used Photovoice as means to advocate for equal access to community resources. Often people with disabilities encounter difficulties in helping the able-bodied population to understand issues that are faced by persons who use wheelchai…
Financing Campaigns: Macro Level Innovation and Micro Level Response
Community Participation as Pedagogy: Its Effects on Political Attitudes of Black Students
The traditional literature on participatory democracy and more recent studies of regime support and system maintenance suggest the need for citizens to perceive that they can have influence on the political system (efficacy), that the system is fair in its response to citizen input (cynicism), and that citizen input is possible and obligatory (citizen duty).1 The documentation of low efficacy, high cynicism, and low levels of citizen participatio…
Evaluating Student Involvement as a Technique for Improving Citizenship Education
Issue Saliency, Opinion-Holding, and Party Preference
Issue Saliency, Opinion-Holding, and Party Preference
Teachers as Agents of Political Socialization
Teachers, Change, and Political Socialization
Teachers: Socialized While Socializing
Evaluating Student Involvement as a Technique for Improving Citizenship Education
Community Participation as Pedagogy: Its Effects on Political Attitudes of Black Students
The traditional literature on participatory democracy and more recent studies of regime support and system maintenance suggest the need for citizens to perceive that they can have influence on the political system (efficacy), that the system is fair in its response to citizen input (cynicism), and that citizen input is possible and obligatory (citizen duty).1 The documentation of low efficacy, high cynicism, and low levels of citizen participatio…
Racial Patterns and School District Policy
Local control allows flexibility, but in this sample of school systems there was only limited adaptation as the systems were desegregated
Institutional Change and Socialization Research: The School and Politicization
Democratic Values and Preadult Virtues: Tolerance, Knowledge, and Participation
News Media and Politicization: American Youth 1969-1975
This study analyzes change in news media usage among thirteenand seventeen-year-old students, compares TV, radio, and newspaper attention levels, and considers changes in news topics of interest to teenagers during the Vietnam-Watergate era. The data are from national surveys conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 1969 and 1975. By 1975, American youth of both age groups watched less TV news, listened to less radio news, …
State Public Campaign Finance: Implications for Partisan Politics
Between 1972 and 1980 seventeen states enacted legislation to provide public funding of state-level election campaigns. These public campaign funding programs vary on four key policy dimensions. States are treated as laboratories of in which variations on a common policy have been introduced and are examined systematically. Assessment of the partisan impact of public campaign policies reveals that the majority party is generally advantaged in abs…
State Polls: Promising Data Sources for Political Research
This research note suggests that the image of statewide polls as erratic bases for election predictions belies their reliability and usefulness as sources of information for basic scientific research. Data on partisanship from three different polling organizations, over a seven-year period, for fourteen different states, are presented to indicate that there is minimal interorganization variation among the three sources of data, a remarkable stabi…
Financing Campaigns: Macro Level Innovation and Micro Level Response
Financing Campaigns: Macro Level Innovation and Micro Level Response
State Campaign Fund Raising: Targets and Response
The extent to which campaign contributors are solicited by, and respond to, four different fund-raising techniques--direct mail, telephone, personal face-to-face, and group appeal--are reported. Data from contributors in two states indicate that there is significant variation in the use of all four modes of solicitation, and each apparently reaches and motivates somewhat different populations. The data also suggest that many contributors give wit…
Strategic Contributing in Legislative Campaigns: The Case of Minnesota
This article examines the relationship between the sources of campaign contributions and state legislative candidates' incumbency status, party, and need for funds. The findings here support many of the same conclusions that studies of congressional campaign funding have reached. However, they also indicate that political parties and PACs differ from each other in their patterns of giving when the competitiveness of the state legislative race is …
Gathering the Evidence: Photovoice as a Tool for Disability Advocacy
The participatory research method Photovoice capitalizes on the spirit of the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words." We, a group of 10 individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and our project facilitator, used Photovoice as means to advocate for equal access to community resources. Often people with disabilities encounter difficulties in helping the able-bodied population to understand issues that are faced by persons who use wheelchai…
Following Powell’s Lead and Expanding the Agenda
These comments emphasize the contributions of Lynda Powell’s work on state-level campaign finance. That work is theoretically rich and analytically rigorous, and suggests that the context of contributing behaviors is a key variable often ignored. Logical extensions of her study suggest the need for (1) extensive, comparative, data collection, (2) additional topics of inquiry, and (3) the use of complementary approaches to better understand the ro…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works)