Kevin A Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 629230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin A Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Community or a Crowd? Regional and Ethnic Bloc Voting in the Florida House of Representatives, 1989–1996
The present study utilizes roll call analysis of voting in the Florida House of Representatives between 1989 and 1996 to answer the question of whether regional, partisan, or ethnic loyalties are more important in determining the behavior of political elites in the Sunshine State. In a large, populous state like Florida, is politics driven more by regional loyalties than by partisan loyalties? Further, given Florida's ethnic diversity, is ethnici…
Racial and Partisan Voting in a Tri-Ethnic City: The 1996 Dade County Mayoral Election
Through an analysis of the 1996 Dade County, Florida mayoral election, this article explains which is more important in vote choice in a racially-diverse polity—ethnicity or partisanship. We directly test this question in a metropolitan local election that constitutes a unique natural experiment. In September 1996, Dade County held a mayoral election with four major candidates whose partisan and ethnic interactions were not normal for the politic…
Language as a Variable: English, Spanish, Ethnicity, and Political Opinion Polling in South Florida
This article argues that conducting public opinion surveys in Spanish as well as English is crucial to the study of the modern Latino electorate. Unfortunately, the conventional wisdom is to survey only in English because, so the argument goes, the validity and reliability problems raised by bilingual polling and translation do not make it worthwhile to conduct surveys in two languages. The authors challenge this assertion with evidence from six …
What Happened to the Democrats in the South: US House Elections, 1992-1996
This paper analyses the dramatic reduction in the numbers of white southern Democrats in the US House of Representatives since 1992. After 30 years of gradual erosion as a political force on Capitol Hill, the decline in white southern Democratic numbers has markedly accelerated during the 1990s. Georgia's House delegation includes not a single white Democrat, and Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina had only one as of 1998. Moreover…
Is the internet an instrument of global democratization
This article explores the hypothesis that people in less democratic nations will use the Internet newsgroups devoted to those countries as a relatively ‘safe’ form of political discussion and even protest. Also, it is expected that nationals of those countries living overseas will use these newsgroups to more openly discuss politics in those nations than they could otherwise do so. Before turning to a content analysis of the messages posted in no…
Computer-Mediated Political Communication: The Usenet and Political Communities
Social and political groups can facilitate the transmission of information and the formation of political attitudes. We employ the logic of group formation to examine electronic communities. Do electronic groups form cohesive social groups exhibiting the characteristics of traditional physical groups such as churches and peers? We conduct a content analysis of 5,611 USENET messages. The messages are analyzed for the following behaviors: political…
Second-Generation Cubans
This article tests the hypothesis that second-generation Cuban Americans have significantly different political attitudes than either their parents or more recent Cuban immigrants to the United States. Using the unique data set provided by the Latino National Political Survey, the article investigates whether or not there are differences between the following three sets of Cuban Americans: those born in the United States, those whofirst arrived i…
Zimbabwe's Wildlife Utilization Programs: Grassroots Democracy or an Extension of State Power
Are apparently successful “grassroots” conservation programs in Africa paradoxically a boon for the extension of central state authority? Can decentralization actually serve to bring about recentralization, giving governments not only new sources of revenue, but also more legitimacy in marginal rural areas? By exploring the current and historical relationships between Zimbabwean rural people and the wildlife that surrounds them, one can hopefully…
Conflicts over Development and Environmental Values: The International Ivory Trade in Zimbabwe's Historical Context
The international debate over sustainable utilisation of animal species often reaches a fever pitch, especially when Northern and Southern governments and NGOs clash. This paper examines one such clash in its proper historical framework: the recent debate over the international ivory trade. The article outlines Zimbabwe's pro-ivory trade position, with special attention paid to Zimbabwe's attempts to transform a local culture which has been hosti…
Does the Creation of Majority Black Districts Aid Republicans? An Analysis of the 1992 Congressional Elections in Eight Southern States
This article asks a relatively simple question: does the creation of majority black electoral districts in the South aid Republicans? Given the post-1990 reapportionment of state legislative and congressional districts, and the zeal with which Sections Two and Five of the Voting Rights Act have been enforced by Republican Justice Departments, this is a timely question. The rise in the electoral fortunes of southern Republicans in the past decade …
Faith and Election: The Christian Right in Congressional Campaigns 1978- 1988
Here we assess the involvement of the Christian Right in recent congressional campaigns from three theoretical perspectives: the "demand" for Christian Right activism, the "supply" of resources for such activism, and "strategic choice" in the deployment of such resources. We find that the Christian Right was most active, and apparently successful, where all three factors converged. These findings reveal the political character of the Christian Ri…
The Domestic Sources of Foreign Policymaking: Congressional Voting and American Mass Attitudes toward South Africa
This paper places an individual's attitude toward South African sanctions into a causal belief system model. Specifically, the model posited here hypothesizes that Americans primarily use two general postures to orient their attitudes toward South African sanctions: general racial postures, derived from knowledge and attitudes about domestic race relations, and general foreign policy postures. Further, I hypothesize that these racial and foreign …
The Effectiveness of National Forestry Administration in Africa: A Test of the Ministerial Autonomy Hypothesis
Zimbabwe's wildlife conservation regime: Rural farmers and the state
Does the Creation of Majority Black Districts Aid Republicans? An Analysis of the 1992 Congressional Elections in Eight Southern States
This article asks a relatively simple question: does the creation of majority black electoral districts in the South aid Republicans? Given the post-1990 reapportionment of state legislative and congressional districts, and the zeal with which Sections Two and Five of the Voting Rights Act have been enforced by Republican Justice Departments, this is a timely question. The rise in the electoral fortunes of southern Republicans in the past decade …
Computer-Mediated Political Communication: The Usenet and Political Communities
Social and political groups can facilitate the transmission of information and the formation of political attitudes. We employ the logic of group formation to examine electronic communities. Do electronic groups form cohesive social groups exhibiting the characteristics of traditional physical groups such as churches and peers? We conduct a content analysis of 5,611 USENET messages. The messages are analyzed for the following behaviors: political…
Zimbabwe's Wildlife Utilization Programs: Grassroots Democracy or an Extension of State Power
Are apparently successful “grassroots” conservation programs in Africa paradoxically a boon for the extension of central state authority? Can decentralization actually serve to bring about recentralization, giving governments not only new sources of revenue, but also more legitimacy in marginal rural areas? By exploring the current and historical relationships between Zimbabwean rural people and the wildlife that surrounds them, one can hopefully…
Faith and Election: The Christian Right in Congressional Campaigns 1978- 1988
Here we assess the involvement of the Christian Right in recent congressional campaigns from three theoretical perspectives: the "demand" for Christian Right activism, the "supply" of resources for such activism, and "strategic choice" in the deployment of such resources. We find that the Christian Right was most active, and apparently successful, where all three factors converged. These findings reveal the political character of the Christian Ri…
Second-Generation Cubans
This article tests the hypothesis that second-generation Cuban Americans have significantly different political attitudes than either their parents or more recent Cuban immigrants to the United States. Using the unique data set provided by the Latino National Political Survey, the article investigates whether or not there are differences between the following three sets of Cuban Americans: those born in the United States, those whofirst arrived i…
The Domestic Sources of Foreign Policymaking: Congressional Voting and American Mass Attitudes toward South Africa
This paper places an individual's attitude toward South African sanctions into a causal belief system model. Specifically, the model posited here hypothesizes that Americans primarily use two general postures to orient their attitudes toward South African sanctions: general racial postures, derived from knowledge and attitudes about domestic race relations, and general foreign policy postures. Further, I hypothesize that these racial and foreign …
Racial and Partisan Voting in a Tri-Ethnic City: The 1996 Dade County Mayoral Election
Through an analysis of the 1996 Dade County, Florida mayoral election, this article explains which is more important in vote choice in a racially-diverse polity—ethnicity or partisanship. We directly test this question in a metropolitan local election that constitutes a unique natural experiment. In September 1996, Dade County held a mayoral election with four major candidates whose partisan and ethnic interactions were not normal for the politic…
What Happened to the Democrats in the South: US House Elections, 1992-1996
This paper analyses the dramatic reduction in the numbers of white southern Democrats in the US House of Representatives since 1992. After 30 years of gradual erosion as a political force on Capitol Hill, the decline in white southern Democratic numbers has markedly accelerated during the 1990s. Georgia's House delegation includes not a single white Democrat, and Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina had only one as of 1998. Moreover…
Is the internet an instrument of global democratization
This article explores the hypothesis that people in less democratic nations will use the Internet newsgroups devoted to those countries as a relatively ‘safe’ form of political discussion and even protest. Also, it is expected that nationals of those countries living overseas will use these newsgroups to more openly discuss politics in those nations than they could otherwise do so. Before turning to a content analysis of the messages posted in no…
Conflicts over Development and Environmental Values: The International Ivory Trade in Zimbabwe's Historical Context
The international debate over sustainable utilisation of animal species often reaches a fever pitch, especially when Northern and Southern governments and NGOs clash. This paper examines one such clash in its proper historical framework: the recent debate over the international ivory trade. The article outlines Zimbabwe's pro-ivory trade position, with special attention paid to Zimbabwe's attempts to transform a local culture which has been hosti…
Language as a Variable: English, Spanish, Ethnicity, and Political Opinion Polling in South Florida
This article argues that conducting public opinion surveys in Spanish as well as English is crucial to the study of the modern Latino electorate. Unfortunately, the conventional wisdom is to survey only in English because, so the argument goes, the validity and reliability problems raised by bilingual polling and translation do not make it worthwhile to conduct surveys in two languages. The authors challenge this assertion with evidence from six …
Zimbabwe's wildlife conservation regime: Rural farmers and the state
The Effectiveness of National Forestry Administration in Africa: A Test of the Ministerial Autonomy Hypothesis
Faith and Election: The Christian Right in Congressional Campaigns 1978- 1988
Here we assess the involvement of the Christian Right in recent congressional campaigns from three theoretical perspectives: the "demand" for Christian Right activism, the "supply" of resources for such activism, and "strategic choice" in the deployment of such resources. We find that the Christian Right was most active, and apparently successful, where all three factors converged. These findings reveal the political character of the Christian Ri…
The Domestic Sources of Foreign Policymaking: Congressional Voting and American Mass Attitudes toward South Africa
This paper places an individual's attitude toward South African sanctions into a causal belief system model. Specifically, the model posited here hypothesizes that Americans primarily use two general postures to orient their attitudes toward South African sanctions: general racial postures, derived from knowledge and attitudes about domestic race relations, and general foreign policy postures. Further, I hypothesize that these racial and foreign …
Conflicts over Development and Environmental Values: The International Ivory Trade in Zimbabwe's Historical Context
The international debate over sustainable utilisation of animal species often reaches a fever pitch, especially when Northern and Southern governments and NGOs clash. This paper examines one such clash in its proper historical framework: the recent debate over the international ivory trade. The article outlines Zimbabwe's pro-ivory trade position, with special attention paid to Zimbabwe's attempts to transform a local culture which has been hosti…
Does the Creation of Majority Black Districts Aid Republicans? An Analysis of the 1992 Congressional Elections in Eight Southern States
This article asks a relatively simple question: does the creation of majority black electoral districts in the South aid Republicans? Given the post-1990 reapportionment of state legislative and congressional districts, and the zeal with which Sections Two and Five of the Voting Rights Act have been enforced by Republican Justice Departments, this is a timely question. The rise in the electoral fortunes of southern Republicans in the past decade …
Second-Generation Cubans
This article tests the hypothesis that second-generation Cuban Americans have significantly different political attitudes than either their parents or more recent Cuban immigrants to the United States. Using the unique data set provided by the Latino National Political Survey, the article investigates whether or not there are differences between the following three sets of Cuban Americans: those born in the United States, those whofirst arrived i…
Zimbabwe's Wildlife Utilization Programs: Grassroots Democracy or an Extension of State Power
Are apparently successful “grassroots” conservation programs in Africa paradoxically a boon for the extension of central state authority? Can decentralization actually serve to bring about recentralization, giving governments not only new sources of revenue, but also more legitimacy in marginal rural areas? By exploring the current and historical relationships between Zimbabwean rural people and the wildlife that surrounds them, one can hopefully…
Computer-Mediated Political Communication: The Usenet and Political Communities
Social and political groups can facilitate the transmission of information and the formation of political attitudes. We employ the logic of group formation to examine electronic communities. Do electronic groups form cohesive social groups exhibiting the characteristics of traditional physical groups such as churches and peers? We conduct a content analysis of 5,611 USENET messages. The messages are analyzed for the following behaviors: political…
Is the internet an instrument of global democratization
This article explores the hypothesis that people in less democratic nations will use the Internet newsgroups devoted to those countries as a relatively ‘safe’ form of political discussion and even protest. Also, it is expected that nationals of those countries living overseas will use these newsgroups to more openly discuss politics in those nations than they could otherwise do so. Before turning to a content analysis of the messages posted in no…
What Happened to the Democrats in the South: US House Elections, 1992-1996
This paper analyses the dramatic reduction in the numbers of white southern Democrats in the US House of Representatives since 1992. After 30 years of gradual erosion as a political force on Capitol Hill, the decline in white southern Democratic numbers has markedly accelerated during the 1990s. Georgia's House delegation includes not a single white Democrat, and Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina had only one as of 1998. Moreover…
Racial and Partisan Voting in a Tri-Ethnic City: The 1996 Dade County Mayoral Election
Through an analysis of the 1996 Dade County, Florida mayoral election, this article explains which is more important in vote choice in a racially-diverse polity—ethnicity or partisanship. We directly test this question in a metropolitan local election that constitutes a unique natural experiment. In September 1996, Dade County held a mayoral election with four major candidates whose partisan and ethnic interactions were not normal for the politic…
Language as a Variable: English, Spanish, Ethnicity, and Political Opinion Polling in South Florida
This article argues that conducting public opinion surveys in Spanish as well as English is crucial to the study of the modern Latino electorate. Unfortunately, the conventional wisdom is to survey only in English because, so the argument goes, the validity and reliability problems raised by bilingual polling and translation do not make it worthwhile to conduct surveys in two languages. The authors challenge this assertion with evidence from six …
A Community or a Crowd? Regional and Ethnic Bloc Voting in the Florida House of Representatives, 1989–1996
The present study utilizes roll call analysis of voting in the Florida House of Representatives between 1989 and 1996 to answer the question of whether regional, partisan, or ethnic loyalties are more important in determining the behavior of political elites in the Sunshine State. In a large, populous state like Florida, is politics driven more by regional loyalties than by partisan loyalties? Further, given Florida's ethnic diversity, is ethnici…
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