Erik W Johnson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4015986 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erik W Johnson |
| PRENOMES | Erik W |
| SOBRENOME | Johnson |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSON E W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8725-5177 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Social factors shape federal environmental crime prosecution patterns in the USA
Inconvenient Truths
Social movements are shaped by the stories that activists and organizers tell about them. As movement stories are told and retold, codified into narratives and woven together, they structure collective understanding around a movement's shared history and imagined future. We unpack three prominent narratives of the modern United States environmental movement which are often pegged to the first Earth Day in 1970 as representing: (1) a shifting focu…
Elite Cueing, Gender, and the Partisan Gap in Environmental Support
This study extends research on how political and social contexts mediate the relationship between men’s and women’s political identities and their support for the environment. Our test consists of a 3 × 2 factorial survey experiment that interacts an individual’s partisan identity with three conditions modeling elite support for federal spending to protect the environment. Democrats demonstrate consistently high rates of support regardless of leg…
Policy and legislative outcomes of environmental movements
This chapter examines the policy and legislative outcomes of environmental movements. Part one focuses on the broad outcomes environmental movements pursue, both in terms of substantive policy change and routinized access to political systems. Part two applies a staged model of the policy-making process to elaborate the ways in which environmental movements influence legislation: setting agendas, influencing the content of laws, the passage of le…
Riding a long green wave
What accounts for the remarkable growth of environmental sciences and studies (ESS) in US higher education over the past 50 years? This paper focuses on institutional characteristics to explain this ‘long green wave’ of expansion. Drawing on data from 1345 US higher-education institutions from 1980–2010, we employ three-level hierarchical models to assess institutional and state-level factors associated with the presence of environmental studies …
The criminalization of environmental harm
Over the past four decades, criminal, as opposed to civil or administrative, prosecutions have assumed an increasingly visible role in US environmental law enforcement. There is little understanding about the types of acts and defendants criminally prosecuted for pollution offenses in the United States or the sanctions received. In this paper, a unique dataset on virtually all federal criminal prosecutions of pollution-related offenses between 19…
Political Polarization and Long-Term Change in Public Support for Environmental Spending
Public support for environmental protection has evinced declines in recent years that are widely attributed to growing antipathy among self-identified Republicans. Fractures in what was long considered broad and enduring support for the environment in the United States have called attention to the broader socio-political context in which individual opinion on the environment is formed, and especially the role of political parties and their leader…
The Risk of Occupying a Broad Niche for Environmental Social Movement Organizations
Since Gamson's (1975) landmark study of social movement organizations, scholars have debated whether it is more advantageous to concentrate on a narrow or diverse set of issues. This paper recasts this debate in terms of organizational survival. Drawing on ideas from theories of category spanning and social movements, we argue that an organization that occupies a distinct niche conveys its purpose more effectively, which increases its chances of …
The Mobilizing Effects of Economic Threats and Resources on the Formation of Local Occupy Wall Street Protest Groups in 2011
This paper examines how threatening economic conditions and preexisting community resources facilitated the spread of Occupy Wall Street protest groups to more than 600 counties in the continental United States in 2011. Using a generalized linear mixed model, we find that economic threats and accessible resources are complementary facilitators of movement mobilization. But contrary to the expectations based on earlier media and scholarly accounts…
The Religious and Political Origins of Evangelical Protestants' Opposition to Environmental Spending
Evangelical Protestants are less likely than most other Americans to support environmental policies and spending to protect the natural environment. We use almost three decades of repeated cross-sectional data to examine the factors that promote evangelicals' opposition to environmental spending. Mediation models with bootstrapped standard errors show that affiliation with the Republican Party, biblical literalism, and religious service attendanc…
From fringe to core? The integration of environmental sociology
The extent to which environmental sociology remains a fringe specialty or a leading area of research and practice within the larger discipline is frequently commented on, but rarely examined systematically. This paper assesses environmental sociology’s integration with the core of the discipline with an analysis of environmental publications in the US sociology’s most prestigious mainstream journals between 1970 and 2014. We draw on the theory of…
Understanding selection bias, time-lags and measurement bias in secondary data sources
Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998
This study examines the role of "ecological threat" in shaping the U.S. environmental movement. Statistical analysis combines founding data on 772 national environmental movement organizations with ecological data on air pollution levels and amphibian and bird populations. We examine these data longitudinally, from 1962 through 1998. Net of other social, economic, and political factors suggested by social movement theory, we find evidence of segm…
Movement Organizations, Synergistic Tactics and Environmental Public Policy
This study builds on political mediation and movement infrastructure models to highlight contingent and synergistic ways in which social movements may impinge upon the U.S. national policy-making process. Analyses employ a variety of datasets to examine the role of environmental movement organizational capacity, protest and institutional activity in garnering Congressional attention to, and action on, salient issues from 1961 through 1990. We fin…
The Organizational Demography of Japanese Environmentalism
Although a macro-organizational perspective has become increasingly commonplace in social movement analyses, few studies examine the full spectrum of organizations in any single social movement industry (SMI). Utilizing a unique source of data on Japanese environmental movement organizations, we compare characteristics of groups focused primarily on environmental issues with those for whom environmental issues are part of a larger multi-issue foc…
Social Movement Size, Organizational Diversity and the Making of Federal Law
During the 1960s and 70s the United States environmental movement experienced dramatic growth in both absolute size and in the diversity of organizational structures and issues represented within the movement. We assess the importance of change in movement size and compositional diversity on two important stages within the legislative process. Findings indicate that U.S. environmental movement size is positively associated with the incidence of C…
Changing Issue Representation among Major United States Environmental Movement Organizations
Histories of the environmental movement have emphasized the importance of a shift in focus from those issues traditionally associated with the movement, such as resource and wildlife protection, towards 'new' quality of life issues, such as environmental pollution and its human health effects. Here, time-series data between 1970 and 2000 on the issue agendas of fifty leading environmental movement organizations (EMOs) are used to empirically asse…
The Sequencing of Transnational and National Social Movement Mobilization
Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998
This study examines the role of "ecological threat" in shaping the U.S. environmental movement. Statistical analysis combines founding data on 772 national environmental movement organizations with ecological data on air pollution levels and amphibian and bird populations. We examine these data longitudinally, from 1962 through 1998. Net of other social, economic, and political factors suggested by social movement theory, we find evidence of segm…
Social Movement Size, Organizational Diversity and the Making of Federal Law
During the 1960s and 70s the United States environmental movement experienced dramatic growth in both absolute size and in the diversity of organizational structures and issues represented within the movement. We assess the importance of change in movement size and compositional diversity on two important stages within the legislative process. Findings indicate that U.S. environmental movement size is positively associated with the incidence of C…
The Religious and Political Origins of Evangelical Protestants' Opposition to Environmental Spending
Evangelical Protestants are less likely than most other Americans to support environmental policies and spending to protect the natural environment. We use almost three decades of repeated cross-sectional data to examine the factors that promote evangelicals' opposition to environmental spending. Mediation models with bootstrapped standard errors show that affiliation with the Republican Party, biblical literalism, and religious service attendanc…
Changing Issue Representation among Major United States Environmental Movement Organizations
Histories of the environmental movement have emphasized the importance of a shift in focus from those issues traditionally associated with the movement, such as resource and wildlife protection, towards 'new' quality of life issues, such as environmental pollution and its human health effects. Here, time-series data between 1970 and 2000 on the issue agendas of fifty leading environmental movement organizations (EMOs) are used to empirically asse…
The Risk of Occupying a Broad Niche for Environmental Social Movement Organizations
Since Gamson's (1975) landmark study of social movement organizations, scholars have debated whether it is more advantageous to concentrate on a narrow or diverse set of issues. This paper recasts this debate in terms of organizational survival. Drawing on ideas from theories of category spanning and social movements, we argue that an organization that occupies a distinct niche conveys its purpose more effectively, which increases its chances of …
From fringe to core? The integration of environmental sociology
The extent to which environmental sociology remains a fringe specialty or a leading area of research and practice within the larger discipline is frequently commented on, but rarely examined systematically. This paper assesses environmental sociology’s integration with the core of the discipline with an analysis of environmental publications in the US sociology’s most prestigious mainstream journals between 1970 and 2014. We draw on the theory of…
Understanding selection bias, time-lags and measurement bias in secondary data sources
The criminalization of environmental harm
Over the past four decades, criminal, as opposed to civil or administrative, prosecutions have assumed an increasingly visible role in US environmental law enforcement. There is little understanding about the types of acts and defendants criminally prosecuted for pollution offenses in the United States or the sanctions received. In this paper, a unique dataset on virtually all federal criminal prosecutions of pollution-related offenses between 19…
The Mobilizing Effects of Economic Threats and Resources on the Formation of Local Occupy Wall Street Protest Groups in 2011
This paper examines how threatening economic conditions and preexisting community resources facilitated the spread of Occupy Wall Street protest groups to more than 600 counties in the continental United States in 2011. Using a generalized linear mixed model, we find that economic threats and accessible resources are complementary facilitators of movement mobilization. But contrary to the expectations based on earlier media and scholarly accounts…
The Organizational Demography of Japanese Environmentalism
Although a macro-organizational perspective has become increasingly commonplace in social movement analyses, few studies examine the full spectrum of organizations in any single social movement industry (SMI). Utilizing a unique source of data on Japanese environmental movement organizations, we compare characteristics of groups focused primarily on environmental issues with those for whom environmental issues are part of a larger multi-issue foc…
The Sequencing of Transnational and National Social Movement Mobilization
Changing Issue Representation among Major United States Environmental Movement Organizations
Histories of the environmental movement have emphasized the importance of a shift in focus from those issues traditionally associated with the movement, such as resource and wildlife protection, towards 'new' quality of life issues, such as environmental pollution and its human health effects. Here, time-series data between 1970 and 2000 on the issue agendas of fifty leading environmental movement organizations (EMOs) are used to empirically asse…
Social Movement Size, Organizational Diversity and the Making of Federal Law
During the 1960s and 70s the United States environmental movement experienced dramatic growth in both absolute size and in the diversity of organizational structures and issues represented within the movement. We assess the importance of change in movement size and compositional diversity on two important stages within the legislative process. Findings indicate that U.S. environmental movement size is positively associated with the incidence of C…
The Organizational Demography of Japanese Environmentalism
Although a macro-organizational perspective has become increasingly commonplace in social movement analyses, few studies examine the full spectrum of organizations in any single social movement industry (SMI). Utilizing a unique source of data on Japanese environmental movement organizations, we compare characteristics of groups focused primarily on environmental issues with those for whom environmental issues are part of a larger multi-issue foc…
Movement Organizations, Synergistic Tactics and Environmental Public Policy
This study builds on political mediation and movement infrastructure models to highlight contingent and synergistic ways in which social movements may impinge upon the U.S. national policy-making process. Analyses employ a variety of datasets to examine the role of environmental movement organizational capacity, protest and institutional activity in garnering Congressional attention to, and action on, salient issues from 1961 through 1990. We fin…
Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998
This study examines the role of "ecological threat" in shaping the U.S. environmental movement. Statistical analysis combines founding data on 772 national environmental movement organizations with ecological data on air pollution levels and amphibian and bird populations. We examine these data longitudinally, from 1962 through 1998. Net of other social, economic, and political factors suggested by social movement theory, we find evidence of segm…
Understanding selection bias, time-lags and measurement bias in secondary data sources
From fringe to core? The integration of environmental sociology
The extent to which environmental sociology remains a fringe specialty or a leading area of research and practice within the larger discipline is frequently commented on, but rarely examined systematically. This paper assesses environmental sociology’s integration with the core of the discipline with an analysis of environmental publications in the US sociology’s most prestigious mainstream journals between 1970 and 2014. We draw on the theory of…
The Religious and Political Origins of Evangelical Protestants' Opposition to Environmental Spending
Evangelical Protestants are less likely than most other Americans to support environmental policies and spending to protect the natural environment. We use almost three decades of repeated cross-sectional data to examine the factors that promote evangelicals' opposition to environmental spending. Mediation models with bootstrapped standard errors show that affiliation with the Republican Party, biblical literalism, and religious service attendanc…
Political Polarization and Long-Term Change in Public Support for Environmental Spending
Public support for environmental protection has evinced declines in recent years that are widely attributed to growing antipathy among self-identified Republicans. Fractures in what was long considered broad and enduring support for the environment in the United States have called attention to the broader socio-political context in which individual opinion on the environment is formed, and especially the role of political parties and their leader…
The Risk of Occupying a Broad Niche for Environmental Social Movement Organizations
Since Gamson's (1975) landmark study of social movement organizations, scholars have debated whether it is more advantageous to concentrate on a narrow or diverse set of issues. This paper recasts this debate in terms of organizational survival. Drawing on ideas from theories of category spanning and social movements, we argue that an organization that occupies a distinct niche conveys its purpose more effectively, which increases its chances of …
The Mobilizing Effects of Economic Threats and Resources on the Formation of Local Occupy Wall Street Protest Groups in 2011
This paper examines how threatening economic conditions and preexisting community resources facilitated the spread of Occupy Wall Street protest groups to more than 600 counties in the continental United States in 2011. Using a generalized linear mixed model, we find that economic threats and accessible resources are complementary facilitators of movement mobilization. But contrary to the expectations based on earlier media and scholarly accounts…
Riding a long green wave
What accounts for the remarkable growth of environmental sciences and studies (ESS) in US higher education over the past 50 years? This paper focuses on institutional characteristics to explain this ‘long green wave’ of expansion. Drawing on data from 1345 US higher-education institutions from 1980–2010, we employ three-level hierarchical models to assess institutional and state-level factors associated with the presence of environmental studies …
The criminalization of environmental harm
Over the past four decades, criminal, as opposed to civil or administrative, prosecutions have assumed an increasingly visible role in US environmental law enforcement. There is little understanding about the types of acts and defendants criminally prosecuted for pollution offenses in the United States or the sanctions received. In this paper, a unique dataset on virtually all federal criminal prosecutions of pollution-related offenses between 19…
Policy and legislative outcomes of environmental movements
This chapter examines the policy and legislative outcomes of environmental movements. Part one focuses on the broad outcomes environmental movements pursue, both in terms of substantive policy change and routinized access to political systems. Part two applies a staged model of the policy-making process to elaborate the ways in which environmental movements influence legislation: setting agendas, influencing the content of laws, the passage of le…
Elite Cueing, Gender, and the Partisan Gap in Environmental Support
This study extends research on how political and social contexts mediate the relationship between men’s and women’s political identities and their support for the environment. Our test consists of a 3 × 2 factorial survey experiment that interacts an individual’s partisan identity with three conditions modeling elite support for federal spending to protect the environment. Democrats demonstrate consistently high rates of support regardless of leg…
Social factors shape federal environmental crime prosecution patterns in the USA
Inconvenient Truths
Social movements are shaped by the stories that activists and organizers tell about them. As movement stories are told and retold, codified into narratives and woven together, they structure collective understanding around a movement's shared history and imagined future. We unpack three prominent narratives of the modern United States environmental movement which are often pegged to the first Earth Day in 1970 as representing: (1) a shifting focu…
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