John C Pierce
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 455416 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John C Pierce |
| PRENOMES | John C |
| SOBRENOME | Pierce |
| ASSINATURA | PIERCE J C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0863-9584 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 219 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
What Does it Take to Have a Healthy Community? Exploring the Role of Social Infrastructure in Shaping Public Health
Despite significant health care spending, health in the United States is declining. This paradox adds urgency to developing a better understanding of the factors shaping community health. While substantial research has focused on health care systems in order to understand health outcomes, the Social Determinants of Health framework argues for a more integrative and dynamic approach to public health. We extend that framework by examining the assoc…
Legislative Civility, Gridlock, Polarization, and Productivity
This article examines the relationship between legislative civility and legislative productivity in US state legislatures. The research employs data from the National Survey of State Legislative Lobbyists and from the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion (SPID) database. The former dataset is used to generate an overall civility index for each state as developed by Kettler et al. The SPID database allows one to measure the legislative productivi…
Exploring the Nexus of Energy Burden, Social Capital, and Environmental Quality in Shaping Health in US Counties
The United States spends more on health care than any other OECD country, yet the nation's health is declining. Recent research has identified multiple sources for this decline, including one's position in social and economic structures, environmental quality, and individual and collective social capital. This paper assesses the primary hypotheses that the health effects of household energy burden, social capital and environmental quality on aggr…
Sanctuary Ordinances
Foreclosure Risk and Community Health
This study draws upon the social determinants of health framework to model and test the extent to which a community’s social capital is health protective in the face of a substantial economic shock, namely the recent foreclosure crisis. U.S. county–level data are used to analyze potential moderating effects of social capital on health given a community’s foreclosure risk. We rely upon established social capital measures for U.S counties and merge…
Prospects for Alternative Energy Development in the U.S. West
Sociopolitical sources of creative cultural capital in U.S. counties
This article examines the social, political, and demographic sources of variation in creative cultural capital in over 3,100 U.S. counties. The analysis presented here focuses on institutionalized forms of creative activity, as reflected by employment in museums, libraries, and the visual and performing arts sectors. Study results indicate that community-level variables account for a statistically significant portion of variation in creative cult…
Job satisfaction in Cascadia
Canada and the USA share a common cultural source in the British Empire, yet within shared democratic traditions, very different political structures, policy processes, and values have been identified. Canada is seen as having a more deferential culture more supportive of government while Americans have been argued to be more individualistic and cynical about the role of government in society. Using a political culture framework, this study exami…
The Impact of Auditory and Visual Experience with Wind Turbines on Support for Wind Production and Proximity-Based Opposition
Community acceptance is a key factor contributing to the outcome of wind power deployment efforts. This study considers the views of an experientially informed subset of the public: individuals living in select Washington and California counties that have active wind farms. We divide respondents into two groups based on a qualitative measure of their proximity—those who can see or hear turbines from their homes and those who cannot—and empiricall…
Social capital, institutional performance, and sustainability in Italy's regions
Robert Putnam's celebrated book, Making Democracy Work, identified "path dependent" sources of differences in social capital in Italy's regions as an explanation for their variations in success at "overcoming dilemmas of collective action" (1993, p. 167). This article identifies among Italy's regions: (1) the relationships among Putnam's historical legacy-based levels of social capital on the one hand, and subsequent contemporary levels of social…
Social Capital and Emergency Management Planning
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…
Resilience and sustainability in US urban areas
The relationship between the level of resilience and the level of sustainability plans and policies found in 40 American urban areas is examined. The resilience index reflects motivation, capacity and information; sustainability plans and policies are measured by a content analysis of city documents. The results show that: the presence of sustainability plans and policies is related to resilience, but not to aggregate measures of diversity, forma…
Cultural sources of variations in US urban sustainability attributes
Public Information Campaigns and "At-Risk" Voters
In the fall of 1994 a nonpartisan and nonprofit voter information organization Project Vote Smart-designed and implemented an education project for "atrisk" voters in northern California. The Project Vote Smart (PVS) effort was a systematic attempt to provide typically nonvoting groups both information and incentive to participate in the November general election. The results presented here suggest that the receipt of PVS materials did not direct…
The Hollow Core
The Inglehart-Flanagan Debate over Postmaterialist Values
This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the disagreement between Ronald Inglehart and Scott Flanagan over the proper conceptualization and measurement of postindustrial values. The empirical findings are derived from a study of two comparable but distinct postindustrial populations. Data utilized to investigate this controversy were gathered by means of mail surveys conducted simultaneously in metropolitan Toronto and Detroit in 1988. Bo…
Support for Citizen Participation
HE proper role of mass publics in democratic polities is a central issue of the postindustrial political era (Barnes and Kaase 1979: 13). By some accounts, the demand for direct citizen participation grows out of the affluence and security of the period following World War II (Inglehart 1977). Pressures for enhanced citizen participation would seem most persistent in policy areas featuring scientific and technical complexity (Nelkin 1979). The co…
Support for Citizen Participation
John C. Pierce, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Jr., Masahiko Matsuoka, Support for Citizen Participation: A Comparison of American and Japanese Citizens, Activists and Elites, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar., 1990), pp. 39-59
Political culture, postmaterial values, and the new environmental paradigm
Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition
Mary Ann E. Steger, John C. Pierce, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Brent S. Steel, Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U. S. Comparisons regarding Acid Rain, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 747-764
Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition
Culture, Politics and Mass Publics
This paper examines the putative link between Postmaterial values and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) among mass publics in Japan (Shizuoka Prefecture) and the United States (Spokane, Washington). Unlike Western postindustrial nations, in Japan support for environmentalism comes from two distinct sources--one traditional and the other modern. In Japan, materialist supporters of the NEP are generally indistinct from materialist nonadherents t…
Environmental belief systems among Japanese and American elites and publics
Environmental Policy Elites' Trust of Information Sources
The good guys and bad guys in natural resource politics
The political battleground for contesting environmental and natural resource policies can be thought of quite usefully as entailing a mixture of cloistered group politics and direct citizen action. The strong federal mandate for citizen involvement in natural resource policy making of recent heritage, bolstered by American political traditions of citizen activism and easy access to the ballot and political candidacy, make public perceptions of th…
Correlative Characteristics of Levels of Conceptualization in The American Public 1956-1976
Since The American Voter introduced the "levels of conceptualization" measure, its theoretical potential has been recognized and it has been used widely as an indicator of public evaluations of politics. However, replication and extension of the measure have been limited. If it is to have utility in the study of change in mass political thinking, its validity and cross-time reliability must be established. This paper establishes validity by refer…
Belief systems concerning the environment
Culture, Politics and Mass Publics
This paper examines the putative link between Postmaterial values and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) among mass publics in Japan (Shizuoka Prefecture) and the United States (Spokane, Washington). Unlike Western postindustrial nations, in Japan support for environmentalism comes from two distinct sources--one traditional and the other modern. In Japan, materialist supporters of the NEP are generally indistinct from materialist nonadherents t…
Political culture, postmaterial values, and the new environmental paradigm
Social Capital and Emergency Management Planning
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…
Conceptualization and Party Identification
IWo conditions allow a test of the explanation posed in 1970. First, since 1964 at least two campaigns have had substantial ideological content with the focus on the Democratic party: 1968 and 1972 (Page, 1978).' Second, the original measure of the levels of conceptualization presented in The American Voter (Campbell et al., 1960) now has been content coded for each Center for Political Studies presidential election data set from 1956 to 1976. Th…
Nonattitudes and American Public Opinion
This paper utilizes the 1956-58-60 SRC panel study to examine the degree to which Americans hold attitudes on issues of public policy. The conclusions reject the thesis that only 20 to 30 per cent of the American public have true attitudes and that the remainder either refuse to take a position or respond randomly. The nonattitude thesis is rejected on the basis of: (1) a conceptualization of attitudes which allows for variation in responses thro…
Environmental belief systems among Japanese and American elites and publics
Cultural sources of variations in US urban sustainability attributes
The Inglehart-Flanagan Debate over Postmaterialist Values
This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the disagreement between Ronald Inglehart and Scott Flanagan over the proper conceptualization and measurement of postindustrial values. The empirical findings are derived from a study of two comparable but distinct postindustrial populations. Data utilized to investigate this controversy were gathered by means of mail surveys conducted simultaneously in metropolitan Toronto and Detroit in 1988. Bo…
Vanguards and Rearguards in Environmental Politics
Findings from a study of environmentalists in Shizuoka Prefecture and Spokane County, Washington, suggest that there are two basic types of environmental activists in Japan. In contrast to their U.S. counterparts, most Japanese environmentalists can be characterized as less concerned about environmental preservation, natural resource scarcities, and the dangers of rampant science and technology. However, the most active and knowledgeable among th…
Trust in the Technical Information Provided by Interest Groups
The timely provision of information is crucial to the success of interest groups seeking to influence policymakers, the public and their own members. This paper examines the extent to which legislators, citizens, and policy area experts and activists trust the information provided by specific interests in the water resources managment area. It is shown that citizens and policy area activists are less trusting than are legislators and experts, and…
The Role of Preservationist Identification in the Belief Systems of Water Resource Group Leaders
The Relationship Between Linkage Salience and Linkage Organization in Mass Belief Systems
Journal Article THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LINKAGE SALIENCE AND LINKAGE ORGANIZATION IN MASS BELIEF SYSTEMS Get access JOHN C. PIERCE JOHN C. PIERCE *Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. He wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Don England of Tulane University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 1, SPRING 1975, Pages 102–110, https…
Resilience and sustainability in US urban areas
The relationship between the level of resilience and the level of sustainability plans and policies found in 40 American urban areas is examined. The resilience index reflects motivation, capacity and information; sustainability plans and policies are measured by a content analysis of city documents. The results show that: the presence of sustainability plans and policies is related to resilience, but not to aggregate measures of diversity, forma…
Sex Differences in Black Political Beliefs and Behavior
Whether through choice, systematic exclusion, or norms of role allocation, women generally exhibit lower rates of political participation than men.' Yet, the unanimity with which this conclusion has been reached is weakened by the scant attention directed to subcultural variations, particularly in those subcultures thought to have unique patterns of expected behavior for men and women. In the United States, many scholars consider the black subcul…
Sociopolitical sources of creative cultural capital in U.S. counties
This article examines the social, political, and demographic sources of variation in creative cultural capital in over 3,100 U.S. counties. The analysis presented here focuses on institutionalized forms of creative activity, as reflected by employment in museums, libraries, and the visual and performing arts sectors. Study results indicate that community-level variables account for a statistically significant portion of variation in creative cult…
Knowledge and Politics
Political Involvement and Party Allegiances in Canada and the United States1
Roll Call Measurement of Committee Integration
Legislative Civility, Gridlock, Polarization, and Productivity
This article examines the relationship between legislative civility and legislative productivity in US state legislatures. The research employs data from the National Survey of State Legislative Lobbyists and from the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion (SPID) database. The former dataset is used to generate an overall civility index for each state as developed by Kettler et al. The SPID database allows one to measure the legislative productivi…
Foreclosure Risk and Community Health
This study draws upon the social determinants of health framework to model and test the extent to which a community’s social capital is health protective in the face of a substantial economic shock, namely the recent foreclosure crisis. U.S. county–level data are used to analyze potential moderating effects of social capital on health given a community’s foreclosure risk. We rely upon established social capital measures for U.S counties and merge…
The Impact of Auditory and Visual Experience with Wind Turbines on Support for Wind Production and Proximity-Based Opposition
Community acceptance is a key factor contributing to the outcome of wind power deployment efforts. This study considers the views of an experientially informed subset of the public: individuals living in select Washington and California counties that have active wind farms. We divide respondents into two groups based on a qualitative measure of their proximity—those who can see or hear turbines from their homes and those who cannot—and empiricall…
Social capital, institutional performance, and sustainability in Italy's regions
Robert Putnam's celebrated book, Making Democracy Work, identified "path dependent" sources of differences in social capital in Italy's regions as an explanation for their variations in success at "overcoming dilemmas of collective action" (1993, p. 167). This article identifies among Italy's regions: (1) the relationships among Putnam's historical legacy-based levels of social capital on the one hand, and subsequent contemporary levels of social…
Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition
Mary Ann E. Steger, John C. Pierce, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Brent S. Steel, Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canadian/U. S. Comparisons regarding Acid Rain, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 747-764
Efficacy and Participation
Cross-National Micro-Analysis
Cross-National Micro-Analysis
Sex Differences in Black Political Beliefs and Behavior
Whether through choice, systematic exclusion, or norms of role allocation, women generally exhibit lower rates of political participation than men.' Yet, the unanimity with which this conclusion has been reached is weakened by the scant attention directed to subcultural variations, particularly in those subcultures thought to have unique patterns of expected behavior for men and women. In the United States, many scholars consider the black subcul…
Nonattitudes and American Public Opinion
This paper utilizes the 1956-58-60 SRC panel study to examine the degree to which Americans hold attitudes on issues of public policy. The conclusions reject the thesis that only 20 to 30 per cent of the American public have true attitudes and that the remainder either refuse to take a position or respond randomly. The nonattitude thesis is rejected on the basis of: (1) a conceptualization of attitudes which allows for variation in responses thro…
Rejoinder to "Comment" by Philip E. Converse
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The Relationship Between Linkage Salience and Linkage Organization in Mass Belief Systems
Journal Article THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LINKAGE SALIENCE AND LINKAGE ORGANIZATION IN MASS BELIEF SYSTEMS Get access JOHN C. PIERCE JOHN C. PIERCE *Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. He wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Don England of Tulane University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 1, SPRING 1975, Pages 102–110, https…
Roll Call Measurement of Committee Integration
Water Politics and Public Involvement
The Role of Preservationist Identification in the Belief Systems of Water Resource Group Leaders
Political Involvement and Party Allegiances in Canada and the United States1
Conflict and Consensus in Water Politics
POLITICS in the allocation of Western water resources is a classic case of competition over the distribution of a scarce resource. Simply put, even without the recent specter of drought, there is insufficient water to satisfy completely all claims for it.' Hydroelectric production, irrigation, nuclear power, recreation, commercial and sports fisheries, transportation, aesthetics they all have need of the region's water and they all make claims on…
Belief systems concerning the environment
Knowledge and Politics
Correlative Characteristics of Levels of Conceptualization in The American Public 1956-1976
Since The American Voter introduced the "levels of conceptualization" measure, its theoretical potential has been recognized and it has been used widely as an indicator of public evaluations of politics. However, replication and extension of the measure have been limited. If it is to have utility in the study of change in mass political thinking, its validity and cross-time reliability must be established. This paper establishes validity by refer…
Conceptualization and Party Identification
IWo conditions allow a test of the explanation posed in 1970. First, since 1964 at least two campaigns have had substantial ideological content with the focus on the Democratic party: 1968 and 1972 (Page, 1978).' Second, the original measure of the levels of conceptualization presented in The American Voter (Campbell et al., 1960) now has been content coded for each Center for Political Studies presidential election data set from 1956 to 1976. Th…
Trust in the Technical Information Provided by Interest Groups
The timely provision of information is crucial to the success of interest groups seeking to influence policymakers, the public and their own members. This paper examines the extent to which legislators, citizens, and policy area experts and activists trust the information provided by specific interests in the water resources managment area. It is shown that citizens and policy area activists are less trusting than are legislators and experts, and…
Racial Differences in Political Conceptualization
Racial Differences in Political Conceptualization
r _ HE 1960s was tumultuous time in American politics. Social scientists confronted host of questions arising out of that turmoil, some of the most significant of which concerned differences in attitudes. One focus was cynicism and support. In the late 1960s black children exhibited greater cynicism than did white children (Abramson 1977), pattern shared by adults (Miller 1974). Similarly, Aberbach and Walker found series of differences in orient…
Water Pollution Control In Democratic Societies
Postindustrial society seems to bring with it an inevitable heightening of official and public concern with environmental pollution. In light of this fact it becomes important to understand the dynamics by which public opinion is formulated in this area of public policy. What factors are associated with citizens placing concern for environmental pollution above other public policy concerns? What individual characteristics are associ- ated with th…
The good guys and bad guys in natural resource politics
The political battleground for contesting environmental and natural resource policies can be thought of quite usefully as entailing a mixture of cloistered group politics and direct citizen action. The strong federal mandate for citizen involvement in natural resource policy making of recent heritage, bolstered by American political traditions of citizen activism and easy access to the ballot and political candidacy, make public perceptions of th…
Vanguards and Rearguards in Environmental Politics
Findings from a study of environmentalists in Shizuoka Prefecture and Spokane County, Washington, suggest that there are two basic types of environmental activists in Japan. In contrast to their U.S. counterparts, most Japanese environmentalists can be characterized as less concerned about environmental preservation, natural resource scarcities, and the dangers of rampant science and technology. However, the most active and knowledgeable among th…
Culture, Politics and Mass Publics
This paper examines the putative link between Postmaterial values and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) among mass publics in Japan (Shizuoka Prefecture) and the United States (Spokane, Washington). Unlike Western postindustrial nations, in Japan support for environmentalism comes from two distinct sources--one traditional and the other modern. In Japan, materialist supporters of the NEP are generally indistinct from materialist nonadherents t…
Environmental belief systems among Japanese and American elites and publics
Environmental Policy Elites' Trust of Information Sources
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