Rebecca Entress
Biographic Data
| ID | 6108939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Entress |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Entress |
| SIGNATURE | ENTRESS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Columbia South Carolina USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Margins and Political Messaging
This mixed-methods study, grounded in the "ambition on the margins" framework, examines the political socialization and mobilization of Black female college students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Southeastern United States. Surveys and focus groups with 80 self-identified Black female undergraduates explored two research questions: How do these students engage politically? and What motivates their participation? Findings …
Barriers to Evacuating
Emergencies, such as extreme weather events, require residents to evacuate for their safety. Past research suggests that administrative burdens—compliance, learning, and psychological costs—can impact the likelihood of evacuations to shelters. These burdens disproportionately impact socially vulnerable populations and create social equity issues. Florida operates special needs shelters to provide safe environments and basic assistance to individu…
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration
We draw from the Theory of Fundamental Causes to examine social equity and community resilience in public administration. We analyze the effect of social capital and social vulnerability on COVID‐19 vaccination rates in United States' counties, as well as social capital's influence in counties with varying social vulnerabilities. Findings show that bonding social capital and socioeconomic status (SES) vulnerability negatively predict vaccine upta…
When Deaths Are Dehumanized
The COVID-19 pandemic, which is still gripping the world, brought death front and center into many people’s lives. In the United States, however, some of the deaths were treated as “more tragic” than others given someone’s economic use value coupled with dehumanizing language. Using Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, this is understood as a public values failure when economic productivity eclipses public health and humanity. Introducing a concept…
When Deaths Are Dehumanized
The COVID-19 pandemic, which is still gripping the world, brought death front and center into many people’s lives. In the United States, however, some of the deaths were treated as “more tragic” than others given someone’s economic use value coupled with dehumanizing language. Using Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, this is understood as a public values failure when economic productivity eclipses public health and humanity. Introducing a concept…
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration
We draw from the Theory of Fundamental Causes to examine social equity and community resilience in public administration. We analyze the effect of social capital and social vulnerability on COVID‐19 vaccination rates in United States' counties, as well as social capital's influence in counties with varying social vulnerabilities. Findings show that bonding social capital and socioeconomic status (SES) vulnerability negatively predict vaccine upta…
When Deaths Are Dehumanized
The COVID-19 pandemic, which is still gripping the world, brought death front and center into many people’s lives. In the United States, however, some of the deaths were treated as “more tragic” than others given someone’s economic use value coupled with dehumanizing language. Using Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, this is understood as a public values failure when economic productivity eclipses public health and humanity. Introducing a concept…
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration
We draw from the Theory of Fundamental Causes to examine social equity and community resilience in public administration. We analyze the effect of social capital and social vulnerability on COVID‐19 vaccination rates in United States' counties, as well as social capital's influence in counties with varying social vulnerabilities. Findings show that bonding social capital and socioeconomic status (SES) vulnerability negatively predict vaccine upta…
Margins and Political Messaging
This mixed-methods study, grounded in the "ambition on the margins" framework, examines the political socialization and mobilization of Black female college students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Southeastern United States. Surveys and focus groups with 80 self-identified Black female undergraduates explored two research questions: How do these students engage politically? and What motivates their participation? Findings …
Barriers to Evacuating
Emergencies, such as extreme weather events, require residents to evacuate for their safety. Past research suggests that administrative burdens—compliance, learning, and psychological costs—can impact the likelihood of evacuations to shelters. These burdens disproportionately impact socially vulnerable populations and create social equity issues. Florida operates special needs shelters to provide safe environments and basic assistance to individu…
Political science (4 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (2 works) · Equity (law (2 works) · Infectious disease (medical specialty (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work)