Bonnie Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4454548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0358-7823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
In Rooted, author Brea Baker tracks her family’s trajectory through history. She is looking for answers as to why her father’s family was able to hold onto land while her mother’s family was not. H
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners
Seeing Like a Neighbor: Rethinking Neighborhoods as Service-oriented Communities
Neighborhoods remain primary units of measurement and empowerment among city planners, and governments ask neighborhood groups to take on more of the work of the “state.” Missing from these discussions of neighborhood expectations is how to effectively foster social capital and sense of community among neighbors and what it means to be a neighbor today. Through interviews with residents in a Lawrence, KS, neighborhood, we asked what makes an idea…
Iraq’s tough governance setting: Examining the importance of self-sacrifice over institutions to public service motivation
Public service motivation (PSM) is understudied within ‘tough governance settings’ such Iraq’s, as it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy amidst civil unrest. Debates surrounding a universal construct of PSM currently focus on whether a love of public institutions is an essential component, or if measures of self-sacrifice will suffice. Results from a multidimensional PSM measure previously utilized in western settings are used here in Ir…
Can Social Media Save a Neighborhood Organization
Positive discourse around social media and civic engagement inspired a neighborhood association with few members and resources to use these services. They hoped to revive the neighborhood association and attract new and younger members. They received five Facebook ‘likes’ and three Twitter followers out of 550 households. Survey results revealed a mismatch between perceptions of ‘neighborly’ and social media ties and expectations for neighborhood…
Potential and Challenges for Social Media in the Neighborhood Context
Many studies have focused on new media's role in connecting interest-based communities across vast geographic distances; fewer studies have examined how viable social media is as a communication tool within the neighborhood context. This study investigates the ways in which established modes of place-based neighborhood association, connection, and communication coincide or conflict with the perceived affordances of connection and association avai…
Social Capital and Emergency Management Planning: A Test of Community Context Effects on Formal and Informal Collaboration
Using a sample of U.S. counties, this article explores the relationships between community level resilience, represented by capacity (social capital), information (uses of technology), and motivation (perception of threats to county,) on the one hand, and county levels of emergency management (EM) collaboration on the other. We hypothesize that the greater relative presence of bridging social capital networks will be associated with greater level…
Social, creative, human, and political capital effects on sustainability initiatives in Kansas counties: A Research Note
In a small sample effects analysis of 22 Kansas counties, this research note reports the results of a pilot study of the role of social, creative, human, and political capital in the centrality of environmental and equity concerns in sustainability efforts. Social capital is measured by the relative presence of rent-seeking and non-rent-seeking networks in each county, creative capital by a measure of county creative vitality, human capital by th…
City Planners and Public Service Motivation
Once planners came to terms with the futility of being objective technicians, concerns arose regarding how they used their values in practice, particularly within the public sector. This study examines which factors are associated with the public service motivations of city planners in the USA. Variables representing individual characteristics of planners and the nature of their organizations and communities were analyzed in terms of their relati…
Identities of Competitive States in U.S. Presidential Elections: Electoral College Bias or Candidate-Centered Politics
When discussing the biases of the U.S. Electoral College, researchers conclude that competitive states seem to occur randomly without any explanation. This study examines the consistency with which the same states have been competitive in presidential elections from 1824 to 2000. It also identifies “spectator” states. Spectator states are those that have not been competitive for ten presidential elections in a row. A statistical analysis illustra…
The politics, policies, and practices in linguistic minority education in the People's Republic of China: The case of Tibet
Archaeological Applications of Amino Acid Racemization
Amino acid racemization (AAR) in fossil biominerals has been used over the last 30 years to develop reliable chronologies and thermal histories in archaeological settings from all over the world. It is a biochemical reaction which progresses with time and temperature, and has the potential to be used in any material capable of sequestering amino acids (e.g., avian eggshell, molluscs, teeth, and bones). AAR is not a numerical dating method, per se…
Social Capital and Emergency Management Planning: A Test of Community Context Effects on Formal and Informal Collaboration
Using a sample of U.S. counties, this article explores the relationships between community level resilience, represented by capacity (social capital), information (uses of technology), and motivation (perception of threats to county,) on the one hand, and county levels of emergency management (EM) collaboration on the other. We hypothesize that the greater relative presence of bridging social capital networks will be associated with greater level…
Archaeological Applications of Amino Acid Racemization
Amino acid racemization (AAR) in fossil biominerals has been used over the last 30 years to develop reliable chronologies and thermal histories in archaeological settings from all over the world. It is a biochemical reaction which progresses with time and temperature, and has the potential to be used in any material capable of sequestering amino acids (e.g., avian eggshell, molluscs, teeth, and bones). AAR is not a numerical dating method, per se…
Seeing Like a Neighbor: Rethinking Neighborhoods as Service-oriented Communities
Neighborhoods remain primary units of measurement and empowerment among city planners, and governments ask neighborhood groups to take on more of the work of the “state.” Missing from these discussions of neighborhood expectations is how to effectively foster social capital and sense of community among neighbors and what it means to be a neighbor today. Through interviews with residents in a Lawrence, KS, neighborhood, we asked what makes an idea…
Social, creative, human, and political capital effects on sustainability initiatives in Kansas counties: A Research Note
In a small sample effects analysis of 22 Kansas counties, this research note reports the results of a pilot study of the role of social, creative, human, and political capital in the centrality of environmental and equity concerns in sustainability efforts. Social capital is measured by the relative presence of rent-seeking and non-rent-seeking networks in each county, creative capital by a measure of county creative vitality, human capital by th…
Identities of Competitive States in U.S. Presidential Elections: Electoral College Bias or Candidate-Centered Politics
When discussing the biases of the U.S. Electoral College, researchers conclude that competitive states seem to occur randomly without any explanation. This study examines the consistency with which the same states have been competitive in presidential elections from 1824 to 2000. It also identifies “spectator” states. Spectator states are those that have not been competitive for ten presidential elections in a row. A statistical analysis illustra…
The politics, policies, and practices in linguistic minority education in the People's Republic of China: The case of Tibet
Archaeological Applications of Amino Acid Racemization
Amino acid racemization (AAR) in fossil biominerals has been used over the last 30 years to develop reliable chronologies and thermal histories in archaeological settings from all over the world. It is a biochemical reaction which progresses with time and temperature, and has the potential to be used in any material capable of sequestering amino acids (e.g., avian eggshell, molluscs, teeth, and bones). AAR is not a numerical dating method, per se…
The politics, policies, and practices in linguistic minority education in the People's Republic of China: The case of Tibet
Identities of Competitive States in U.S. Presidential Elections: Electoral College Bias or Candidate-Centered Politics
When discussing the biases of the U.S. Electoral College, researchers conclude that competitive states seem to occur randomly without any explanation. This study examines the consistency with which the same states have been competitive in presidential elections from 1824 to 2000. It also identifies “spectator” states. Spectator states are those that have not been competitive for ten presidential elections in a row. A statistical analysis illustra…
City Planners and Public Service Motivation
Once planners came to terms with the futility of being objective technicians, concerns arose regarding how they used their values in practice, particularly within the public sector. This study examines which factors are associated with the public service motivations of city planners in the USA. Variables representing individual characteristics of planners and the nature of their organizations and communities were analyzed in terms of their relati…
Social Capital and Emergency Management Planning: A Test of Community Context Effects on Formal and Informal Collaboration
Using a sample of U.S. counties, this article explores the relationships between community level resilience, represented by capacity (social capital), information (uses of technology), and motivation (perception of threats to county,) on the one hand, and county levels of emergency management (EM) collaboration on the other. We hypothesize that the greater relative presence of bridging social capital networks will be associated with greater level…
Social, creative, human, and political capital effects on sustainability initiatives in Kansas counties: A Research Note
In a small sample effects analysis of 22 Kansas counties, this research note reports the results of a pilot study of the role of social, creative, human, and political capital in the centrality of environmental and equity concerns in sustainability efforts. Social capital is measured by the relative presence of rent-seeking and non-rent-seeking networks in each county, creative capital by a measure of county creative vitality, human capital by th…
Potential and Challenges for Social Media in the Neighborhood Context
Many studies have focused on new media's role in connecting interest-based communities across vast geographic distances; fewer studies have examined how viable social media is as a communication tool within the neighborhood context. This study investigates the ways in which established modes of place-based neighborhood association, connection, and communication coincide or conflict with the perceived affordances of connection and association avai…
Can Social Media Save a Neighborhood Organization
Positive discourse around social media and civic engagement inspired a neighborhood association with few members and resources to use these services. They hoped to revive the neighborhood association and attract new and younger members. They received five Facebook ‘likes’ and three Twitter followers out of 550 households. Survey results revealed a mismatch between perceptions of ‘neighborly’ and social media ties and expectations for neighborhood…
Iraq’s tough governance setting: Examining the importance of self-sacrifice over institutions to public service motivation
Public service motivation (PSM) is understudied within ‘tough governance settings’ such Iraq’s, as it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy amidst civil unrest. Debates surrounding a universal construct of PSM currently focus on whether a love of public institutions is an essential component, or if measures of self-sacrifice will suffice. Results from a multidimensional PSM measure previously utilized in western settings are used here in Ir…
Seeing Like a Neighbor: Rethinking Neighborhoods as Service-oriented Communities
Neighborhoods remain primary units of measurement and empowerment among city planners, and governments ask neighborhood groups to take on more of the work of the “state.” Missing from these discussions of neighborhood expectations is how to effectively foster social capital and sense of community among neighbors and what it means to be a neighbor today. Through interviews with residents in a Lawrence, KS, neighborhood, we asked what makes an idea…
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
In Rooted, author Brea Baker tracks her family’s trajectory through history. She is looking for answers as to why her father’s family was able to hold onto land while her mother’s family was not. H
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners
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