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ID93544
NAMERobert J Fisher
GIVEN NAMESRobert J
FAMILY NAMEFisher
SIGNATUREFISHER R J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Connecticut
ORCID0000-0001-6866-6341
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS51
TOTAL CITATIONS487
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX10
  • A Realist Evaluation of Mechanisms and Contexts for Facilitating the Implementation of Supported Self‐Management in Community Stroke Care (The Impetus Study)

    Open Access•Lisa Kidd, Julie Brown et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Social Care in the…•2024•References: 2

    The past decade has seen a growing recognition of the role of supported self‐management in the provision of long‐term care and support for stroke survivors in primary and community care. However, its implementation and delivery across different contexts and models of community stroke care is inconsistent and patchy. This realist evaluation explored how and in which circumstances supported self‐management is enacted and delivered within community …

  • Training community organizers in the austerity state: Lessons From the Field

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    Community organizing can play a critical role as a grassroots form of democratic activism which challenges austerity politics sweeping the globe. What is required is not only a democratization of the state through counter-hegemonic political victories, but in the US as well as the UK politicized social movements and grassroots community organizing tied to progressive and radical praxis. The Community Organisers Programme (COP) in England, which t…

  • Assessing the effectiveness of the engagement of local people in restoring degraded forest landscapes in leyte and Biliran Provinces, the Philippines

    Open Access•Kanchana Wiset, Nestor Gregorio et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Science & Policy•2023•References: 8

    Engaging local people is essential for the success of forest landscape restoration (FLR). However, community engagement in FLR remains a challenge and understanding of the dynamics of local engagement is limited. In this study, we explored the engagement of four People’s Organizations (POs) in implementing the National Greening Program (NGP) in Leyte and Biliran provinces in the Philippines. We developed the spectrum of engagement as a framework …

  • What could forest landscape restoration look like in the Ramu-Markham Valley of Papua New Guinea

    Open Access•Kanchana Wiset, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2022•References: 19

    Implementing global environmental initiatives at the local level requires modifications to accommodate site-specific factors such as social organisation, land tenure and gender. This is particularly challenging for forest restoration initiatives such as Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), which require the cooperation and support of local communities and families. FLR has been developed as a global approach to forest restoration supported by vari…

  • From centralised planning to collaborative urban land use planning: The case of Wat Ket, Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Open Access•Somporn Sangawongse, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences & Humanities Open•2021

    The conventional approach to urban planning in Thailand has been a centralised process that relies mainly on decisions by urban planners, based on national regulations and policies. This approach has been ineffective in Wat Ket, a small and unique area in Chiang Mai City in northern Thailand. A key problem is that some parts of Wat Ket were designated as a commercial zone, without the involvement and agreement of local residents, leading to land …

  • We’re not delivering government’s agenda’: The Community Organisers Programme in England

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 33

    Community organising is expanding globally. One example is the Community Organisers Programme in England, initiated by the Cameron coalition government from 2011 to 2015. This qualitative study of the Community Organisers Programme juxtaposes critical theory regarding neoliberalism and state devolution with the experiences of fifteen subjects interviewed in 2014 and 2015. The three cohorts included (i) five recruited, salaried and trained communi…

  • A global production network for ecosystem services: The emergent governance of landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open Access•Danilo Urzedo, Danilo Ignacio Urzedo et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 12

  • How making decisions for children affects the food choices of adults

    Open Access•Utku Akkoc, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Appetite•2019•References: 50

  • Participatory natural resource management in rural China: Making and unmaking environmental narratives

    Open Access•Ju‐han Zoe Wang, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 12

    Environmental and development discourses in China can be categorised into three narrative motifs framing human–nature relationships: peasant, indigenous, and community. Indigenous and community narratives have been widely adopted by environmental NGOs (eNGOs) in China in promoting community‐based natural resource management projects, but there has been very limited critical research on such phenomena. Analysis of socio‐economic change in two ethn…

  • The “big society” in the United Kingdom: Privatisation or democratisation of public services

    Hélène Balazard, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Revue française d administration…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Le projet de Big Society a été l’une des trois priorités du Premier ministre David Cameron après son élection en 2010. Rarement un gouvernement n’avait donné une telle importance à la société civile et aux communautés locales. L’article retrace l’évolution de cette politique publique opaque et finalement abandonnée. Une attention particulière est accordée au rôle du Community Organisers Progamme, l’un des volets les plus abouti, mais tout aussi a…

  • A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•2017

    Benjamin Looker's A Nation of Neighborhoods brilliantly explores the “conflicted yet central role of neighborhood concepts” in the national imagination from the post–World War II era through the early 1980s (p. 198). The book won the Organization of American Historians’ Lawrence W. Levine Award for the best book in American cultural history in 2016; the selection committee deemed it “cultural history at its best ... an innovative, imaginative por…

  • The Community Organisers Programme in England

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 15

    Community-based initiatives for meeting social need and promoting social change are widespread and expanding throughout the globe. Part of conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's Big Society alternative to the Big State is the Community Organiser Programme (COP). Begun in 2011 the COP met goals to hire and train 500 "senior" community organizers and educate and engage 4500 volunteers in community organizing basics by 2015. Obvious contradicti…

  • Community organizing , pansement aux politiques néolibérales ou révolution lente

    Hélène Balazard, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Mouvements•2016•Cited by: 1

    Au Royaume-Uni, le programme conservateur de la Big Society mis en place par le précédent gouvernement Cameron (2010-2015) et Citizens UK , une community organization suivant le modèle initié par Alinsky, ont en commun une rhétorique de responsabilisation des « communautés » ( communities ). Les citoyens doivent être capables de s'« organiser » pour résoudre les problèmes rencontrés. Cette rhétorique est ambivalente et ces deux démarches peuvent …

  • Key factors which influence the success of community forestry in developing countries

    Open Access•Jack Baynes, John Herbohn et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2015•Cited by: 74•References: 21

  • Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and practice (6th edition)

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Australian Geographer•2015

    This book presents a comprehensive overview of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) both globally and in Australia. It presents detailed background dealing with the history of EIA, and an overview

  • The Price of Being Beautiful: Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Empathy for Children in Need

    Robert J Fisher, Yu Ma•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 50

    The research examines how the attractiveness of children in need affects the empathy they evoke and the subsequent help they receive from unrelated adults. The authors find that attractive children are attributed desirable characteristics related to social competence, which is consistent with the “beautiful is good” stereotype. Ironically, the authors find that these attributions reduce the empathy evoked by attractive children and the help they …

  • We Are Radical: The Right to the City Alliance and the Future of Community Organizing

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Sociology & Social…•2013•Cited by: 5

    This paper seeks to situate current efforts of The Right to the City Alliance and selected member groups in a longitudinal and cross-sectional qualitative study of the limits and potential of contemporary organizing. For three decades politicians, policy makers, advocates, academics, and even activists have promoted community-based efforts as the primary vehicle for contemporary social change. Local organizing has been seen as the best site and s…

  • Contested common land: Environmental governance past and present

    Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Australian Geographer•2013

  • Old thoughts in new ideas: State conservation measures, development and livelihood on Palawan Island

    Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Australian Geographer•2012

  • Development and validation of an eating norms inventory. Americans’ lay-beliefs about appropriate eating

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Laurette Dubé•ARTICLE•Appetite•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 63

  • Rebuilding Community Organizing Education in Social Work

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2011•Cited by: 23•References: 14

    Although the campaign and election of Barack Obama as the nation's first President with a background in community organizing (CO) has boosted the visibility and popularity of the field, graduate social work programs have not taken full advantage of the opportunity. This article, therefore, presents a three-fold argument regarding the future of CO education. There is an increasing demand and need for trained organizers and community organizing edu…

  • Right-Wing Organizers Do This Too: The Case of the Christian Coalition

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 19

    This article documents and evaluates the organizing strategies of the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. Unlike most other Christian Right efforts, the Christian Coalition strongly emphasized a grassroots component in a social movement strategy that combined local efforts with a national organization. This study informs three debates in the field of community organizing: whether anything of value can be learned from right-wing organizing; whether …

  • Customer betrayal and retaliation: When your best customers become your worst enemies

    Open Access•Yany Grégoire, Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of the Academy of…•2008

  • An Empathy-Helping Perspective on Consumers' Responses to Fund-Raising Appeals

    Robert J Fisher, Mark Vandenbosch et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2008•Cited by: 13•References: 35

    The research examines viewers' actual responses to four televised fund-raising drives by a public television station over a 2-year period. The 584 pledge breaks we studied contain 4,868 individual appeals that were decomposed into two underlying dimensions based on the empathy-helping hypothesis: the appeal beneficiary (self versus other) and emotional valence (positive versus negative). We find that the most effective fund-raising appeals commun…

  • Poverty and Agrarian-Forest Interactions in Thailand

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Research•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    In this paper we address the often sterile and circular debates over relationships between poverty and deforestation. These debates revolve around questions of whether forest loss causes poverty or poverty contributes to forest encroachment, and questions of whether it is loss of access to forests or dependence on forest-based livelihoods that cause poverty. We suggest that a way beyond the impasse is to set such debates within the context of agr…

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  • Social Desirability Bias and the Validity of Indirect Questioning

    Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1993•Cited by: 127

    Indirect (i.e., structured projective) questioning has been employed frequently in marketing and other social sciences to reduce social desirability bias, that is, systematic error in self-report measures resulting from the desire of respondents to avoid embarrassment and project a favorable image to others. Yet little is known about the validity of indirect questioning in reducing social desirability bias. This article reports on three studies t…

  • Key factors which influence the success of community forestry in developing countries

    Open Access•Jack Baynes, John Herbohn et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2015•Cited by: 74•References: 21

  • Normative Influences on Impulsive Buying Behavior

    Dennis W Rook, Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1995•Cited by: 55

    Although consumer researchers have investigated impulse buying for nearly 50 years, almost no research has empirically examined its normative aspects. This article presents conceptual and empirical evidence that consumers' normative evaluations (i.e., judgments about the appropriateness of engaging in impulse buying behavior) moderate the relationship between the impulse buying trait and consumers' buying behaviors. Specifically, the relationship…

  • Challenging Community Organizing: Facing the 21st Century

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2000•Cited by: 32•References: 3

    2000). Challenging Community Organizing. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 1-19

  • Neither Romance Nor Regulation: Re-evaluating Community

    Open Access•James Defilippis, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2006•Cited by: 28•References: 11

    As the realm of the community has grown increasingly important in the contemporary political economy, the theoretical debates surrounding community have also grown in importance and volume. Too often this literature has been either celebratory or dismissive; either romanticizing the concept and thereby elevating it to primary rank as the focal point of societal initiatives, or objecting to its regulated limits and contradictions and thereby dismi…

  • Rebuilding Community Organizing Education in Social Work

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2011•Cited by: 23•References: 14

    Although the campaign and election of Barack Obama as the nation's first President with a background in community organizing (CO) has boosted the visibility and popularity of the field, graduate social work programs have not taken full advantage of the opportunity. This article, therefore, presents a three-fold argument regarding the future of CO education. There is an increasing demand and need for trained organizers and community organizing edu…

  • Understanding Contemporary University-Community Connections: Context, Practice, and Challenges

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2004•Cited by: 21•References: 8

    This article contextualizes the contemporary phenomenon of university-community partnership initiatives. Because changes in the university must always be understood in context, recent efforts to build and strengthen relationships between institutions of higher education and communities must be situated in the broader social sites that produce them. To that end the article surveys the university-community intersect through an historical lens which…

  • An Empathy-Helping Perspective on Consumers' Responses to Fund-Raising Appeals

    Robert J Fisher, Mark Vandenbosch et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2008•Cited by: 13•References: 35

    The research examines viewers' actual responses to four televised fund-raising drives by a public television station over a 2-year period. The 584 pledge breaks we studied contain 4,868 individual appeals that were decomposed into two underlying dimensions based on the empathy-helping hypothesis: the appeal beneficiary (self versus other) and emotional valence (positive versus negative). We find that the most effective fund-raising appeals commun…

  • The Effects of Recognition and Group Need on Volunteerism: A Social Norm Perspective

    Robert J Fisher, David Ackerman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1998•Cited by: 13

    The significance of volunteering for both individuals and society has lead to numerous studies on this behavior across the social sciences. However, virtually no prior research has evaluated how and to what extent organizations can effectively encourage individuals to contribute time to a worthy cause. The present research uses a social norm perspective to examine the conditions under which promotional appeals based on group need and promises of …

  • International Pleasure Travel Motivations and Post-Vacation Cultural Attitude Change

    Robert J Fisher, Lisa Leimar Price et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Leisure Research•1991•Cited by: 12•References: 8

    Tourism, as a significant form of interaction between nations and cultures, has the potential to improve intercultural relations. This paper develops and tests a model of the relationship between international tourism and visitors' post-vacation attitudes toward the host or destination culture. Path analysis is used to examine the linkages between pleasure travel motivations, level of intercultural interaction, vacation satisfaction, and visitors…

  • A global production network for ecosystem services: The emergent governance of landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open Access•Danilo Urzedo, Danilo Ignacio Urzedo et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 12

  • Graduate Education for Social Change: A Study of Political Social Workers

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2001•Cited by: 8•References: 9

    Is it possible to conduct an effective, progressive, and politicized program for graduate students in our contemporary conservative context? This article evaluates the outcomes over seven years of a pioneering program in Political Social Work. Based on survey data of Political Social Work alumni, it addresses four outcome measures: enrollment, satisfaction with curriculum and field opportunities, job and career development, and persistence of pol…

  • An Investigation into the Social Context of Early Adoption Behavior

    Robert J Fisher, Lisa Leimar Price et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1992•Cited by: 7

    The social context of new product adoption behavior is a key aspect of the diffusion of innovations. Yet little is known about the process by which social contextual factors influence individual adoption decisions. This research develops and tests a model of the effects of perceived consumption visibility and superordinate group influence on new product intention formation. A structural equation model is used in an experimental design to provide …

  • The Community Organisers Programme in England

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 15

    Community-based initiatives for meeting social need and promoting social change are widespread and expanding throughout the globe. Part of conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's Big Society alternative to the Big State is the Community Organiser Programme (COP). Begun in 2011 the COP met goals to hire and train 500 "senior" community organizers and educate and engage 4500 volunteers in community organizing basics by 2015. Obvious contradicti…

  • Gender Differences in Responses to Emotional Advertising: A Social Desirability Perspective

    Robert J Fisher, Laurette Dubé•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2005•Cited by: 6

    Two studies examine gender differences in responses to advertising with emotional content that varies on agency—a fundamental component of the male, but not female, stereotype. As hypothesized, males reported a less pleasant viewing experience and a less favorable attitude toward the advertisement (Aad) when a low-agency emotion (i.e., stereotype-incongruent) ad was viewed with another male, while their responses were not affected by the presence…

  • The Price of Being Beautiful: Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Empathy for Children in Need

    Robert J Fisher, Yu Ma•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 50

    The research examines how the attractiveness of children in need affects the empathy they evoke and the subsequent help they receive from unrelated adults. The authors find that attractive children are attributed desirable characteristics related to social competence, which is consistent with the “beautiful is good” stereotype. Ironically, the authors find that these attributions reduce the empathy evoked by attractive children and the help they …

  • We Are Radical: The Right to the City Alliance and the Future of Community Organizing

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Sociology & Social…•2013•Cited by: 5

    This paper seeks to situate current efforts of The Right to the City Alliance and selected member groups in a longitudinal and cross-sectional qualitative study of the limits and potential of contemporary organizing. For three decades politicians, policy makers, advocates, academics, and even activists have promoted community-based efforts as the primary vehicle for contemporary social change. Local organizing has been seen as the best site and s…

  • Don’t Be a Blockhead: Acorn, Protest Tactics, and Refund Anticipation Loans

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    The recent proliferation of community-based responses to urban problems has been characterized by a shift away from protest tactics to more moderate approaches of building community and consensus, developing social capital, and identifying and improving local assets. This case study examines the persistence and effectiveness of protest tactics in a campaign by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now against H&R Block around pred…

  • If Rain Doesn't Come: An Anthropological Study of Drought and Human Ecology in Western Rajasthan

    R Thomas Rosin, Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1999•Cited by: 5

    Rainfall is very unreliable in western Rajasthan and drought and famine are frequent. Applying an ecological-anthropological approach, this study shows how different socio-economic and caste groups adopt different adaptive strategies for subsistence and demonstrates the inter-relationships between physical, social, economic and political factors in the human ecology of the region

  • Urban Policy in Houston, Texas

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•1989•Cited by: 5

    The only major city in the United States without a zoning ordinance, a city with too little in the way of taxes to support public planning, a city where public sector intervention has been seen historically as detrimental to urban development, Houston seems to be more an unbridled phenomenon than the product of urban policy . In 1978 U.S. News and World Report saw Houston exactly that way

  • Poverty and Agrarian-Forest Interactions in Thailand

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Research•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    In this paper we address the often sterile and circular debates over relationships between poverty and deforestation. These debates revolve around questions of whether forest loss causes poverty or poverty contributes to forest encroachment, and questions of whether it is loss of access to forests or dependence on forest-based livelihoods that cause poverty. We suggest that a way beyond the impasse is to set such debates within the context of agr…

  • Agency Based Community Building in Low Income Neighborhoods: A Praxis Framework

    Michael Fabricant, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2002•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    The decline of community is a significant strain in recent social science literature. The concept of social capital has been used to describe the weakened state of communal structure. The most intense expressions of such decline have been experienced in poor communities. Relatively little attention however, has been paid to the difficult task of social capital formation or rebuilding community. This paper attempts to address that imbalance. It de…

  • Community Organizing and Citizen Participation: The Efforts of the People's Institute in New York City, 1910-1920

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•1977•Cited by: 4

    Efforts at community organizing and citizen participation have a substantial history. The following article is a case study of the attempts of one urban reform group, the People's Institute of New York City, to organize working-class immigrants at the neighborhood level during the second decade of the twentieth century. This effort was part of a larger national movement to use public schools as the sites of community centers. An analysis of the g…

  • Anthropologists and Social Impact Assessment: Negotiating the Ethical Minefield1

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Canberra Anthropology•2008•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Along with environmental impact assessment, social impact assessment (SIA) has its origins in the 1970s and has developed from being a tool to meet regulatory requirements, to a discipline that seeks to contribute proactively to better project and policy development and to enhance the wellbeing of affected people. This volume, edited by a leading authority in the field, collates the classic articles in the history of SIA along with the most signi…

  • Participatory natural resource management in rural China: Making and unmaking environmental narratives

    Open Access•Ju‐han Zoe Wang, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 12

    Environmental and development discourses in China can be categorised into three narrative motifs framing human–nature relationships: peasant, indigenous, and community. Indigenous and community narratives have been widely adopted by environmental NGOs (eNGOs) in China in promoting community‐based natural resource management projects, but there has been very limited critical research on such phenomena. Analysis of socio‐economic change in two ethn…

  • Community Organizing and Citizen Participation: The Efforts of the People's Institute in New York City, 1910-1920

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Social Service Review•1977•Cited by: 4

    Efforts at community organizing and citizen participation have a substantial history. The following article is a case study of the attempts of one urban reform group, the People's Institute of New York City, to organize working-class immigrants at the neighborhood level during the second decade of the twentieth century. This effort was part of a larger national movement to use public schools as the sites of community centers. An analysis of the g…

  • Working-Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1980

    Journal Article Working-Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880–1930. By John T. Cumbler. (Westport: Greenwood, 1979. xiv + 283 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $22.95.) Get access Robert Fisher Robert Fisher University of Houston, Downtown College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…

  • Neighborhood Organizing and Urban Revitalization: An Historical Perspective

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Affairs•1985•Cited by: 1

    Neighborhood organizing as a means of urban and even national revitalization is currently experiencing a revival. What this contemporary interest in neighborhood organizing lacks, however, is a sense of its past. Neighborhood organizing is not a recent phenomenon: it has a long and instructive history. But few neighborhood organizers or members of neighborhood groups seem to know this. This paper, based on a larger study, seeks to remedy this sit…

  • Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America

    P Oliver, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1985

  • Community Mobilization: Prospects for the Future

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Quarterly•1989

    In this brief essay, we seek to add to the discussion on the prospects of community mobilization by offering four major points. The impact of human agency, not only structural conditions, must be considered. Currently, there are distinct signs of grass-roots mobilization and a returning activist consciousness. These trends and events must be seen, however, against the broad restructuring of cities, which has dramatically altered the context for o…

  • Urban Policy in Houston, Texas

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•1989•Cited by: 5

    The only major city in the United States without a zoning ordinance, a city with too little in the way of taxes to support public planning, a city where public sector intervention has been seen historically as detrimental to urban development, Houston seems to be more an unbridled phenomenon than the product of urban policy . In 1978 U.S. News and World Report saw Houston exactly that way

  • International Pleasure Travel Motivations and Post-Vacation Cultural Attitude Change

    Robert J Fisher, Lisa Leimar Price et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Leisure Research•1991•Cited by: 12•References: 8

    Tourism, as a significant form of interaction between nations and cultures, has the potential to improve intercultural relations. This paper develops and tests a model of the relationship between international tourism and visitors' post-vacation attitudes toward the host or destination culture. Path analysis is used to examine the linkages between pleasure travel motivations, level of intercultural interaction, vacation satisfaction, and visitors…

  • Organizing in the Modern Metropolis: Considering New Social Movement Theory

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban History•1992•Cited by: 1

  • An Investigation into the Social Context of Early Adoption Behavior

    Robert J Fisher, Lisa Leimar Price et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1992•Cited by: 7

    The social context of new product adoption behavior is a key aspect of the diffusion of innovations. Yet little is known about the process by which social contextual factors influence individual adoption decisions. This research develops and tests a model of the effects of perceived consumption visibility and superordinate group influence on new product intention formation. A structural equation model is used in an experimental design to provide …

  • Social Desirability Bias and the Validity of Indirect Questioning

    Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1993•Cited by: 127

    Indirect (i.e., structured projective) questioning has been employed frequently in marketing and other social sciences to reduce social desirability bias, that is, systematic error in self-report measures resulting from the desire of respondents to avoid embarrassment and project a favorable image to others. Yet little is known about the validity of indirect questioning in reducing social desirability bias. This article reports on three studies t…

  • Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Stanley F Stevens•ARTICLE•Mountain Research and Development•1995

  • Normative Influences on Impulsive Buying Behavior

    Dennis W Rook, Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1995•Cited by: 55

    Although consumer researchers have investigated impulse buying for nearly 50 years, almost no research has empirically examined its normative aspects. This article presents conceptual and empirical evidence that consumers' normative evaluations (i.e., judgments about the appropriateness of engaging in impulse buying behavior) moderate the relationship between the impulse buying trait and consumers' buying behaviors. Specifically, the relationship…

  • Social Services and Community in the New Private City

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•1996•References: 1

  • Public Life in Gulfton: Multiple Publics and Models of Community Organization

    Lisa Taaffe, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•1997•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Based on a case study of six community organizations in the Gulfton neighborhood in Houston, Texas, this paper proposes that community organization models need to consider that highly diverse and often contentious community efforts within a single community represent well the context of life in contemporary heterogeneous urban neighborhoods. Despite reservations, we find this diversity of organizational efforts and even the tensions among them ge…

  • The Effects of Recognition and Group Need on Volunteerism: A Social Norm Perspective

    Robert J Fisher, David Ackerman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•1998•Cited by: 13

    The significance of volunteering for both individuals and society has lead to numerous studies on this behavior across the social sciences. However, virtually no prior research has evaluated how and to what extent organizations can effectively encourage individuals to contribute time to a worthy cause. The present research uses a social norm perspective to examine the conditions under which promotional appeals based on group need and promises of …

  • If Rain Doesn't Come: An Anthropological Study of Drought and Human Ecology in Western Rajasthan

    R Thomas Rosin, Robert J Fisher•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1999•Cited by: 5

    Rainfall is very unreliable in western Rajasthan and drought and famine are frequent. Applying an ecological-anthropological approach, this study shows how different socio-economic and caste groups adopt different adaptive strategies for subsistence and demonstrates the inter-relationships between physical, social, economic and political factors in the human ecology of the region

  • Challenging Community Organizing: Facing the 21st Century

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2000•Cited by: 32•References: 3

    2000). Challenging Community Organizing. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 1-19

  • Graduate Education for Social Change: A Study of Political Social Workers

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2001•Cited by: 8•References: 9

    Is it possible to conduct an effective, progressive, and politicized program for graduate students in our contemporary conservative context? This article evaluates the outcomes over seven years of a pioneering program in Political Social Work. Based on survey data of Political Social Work alumni, it addresses four outcome measures: enrollment, satisfaction with curriculum and field opportunities, job and career development, and persistence of pol…

  • An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•2002

    Jennifer Frost's “An Interracial Movement of the Poor” adds a new perspective to the literature on the Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP), an experiment in community organizing of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As part of the white New Left student movement of the 1960s, ERAP activists established thirteen organizing projects in lowincome inner-city neighborhoods, most notably in Chicago, Newark, Cleveland, and Boston. As t…

  • Agency Based Community Building in Low Income Neighborhoods: A Praxis Framework

    Michael Fabricant, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2002•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    The decline of community is a significant strain in recent social science literature. The concept of social capital has been used to describe the weakened state of communal structure. The most intense expressions of such decline have been experienced in poor communities. Relatively little attention however, has been paid to the difficult task of social capital formation or rebuilding community. This paper attempts to address that imbalance. It de…

  • Understanding Contemporary University-Community Connections: Context, Practice, and Challenges

    Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Practice•2004•Cited by: 21•References: 8

    This article contextualizes the contemporary phenomenon of university-community partnership initiatives. Because changes in the university must always be understood in context, recent efforts to build and strengthen relationships between institutions of higher education and communities must be situated in the broader social sites that produce them. To that end the article surveys the university-community intersect through an historical lens which…

  • Gender Differences in Responses to Emotional Advertising: A Social Desirability Perspective

    Robert J Fisher, Laurette Dubé•ARTICLE•Journal of Consumer Research•2005•Cited by: 6

    Two studies examine gender differences in responses to advertising with emotional content that varies on agency—a fundamental component of the male, but not female, stereotype. As hypothesized, males reported a less pleasant viewing experience and a less favorable attitude toward the advertisement (Aad) when a low-agency emotion (i.e., stereotype-incongruent) ad was viewed with another male, while their responses were not affected by the presence…

  • Acorn's Accelerated Income Redistribution Project: A Program Evaluation

    Open Access•Fred Brooks, Daniel Russell et al.•ARTICLE•Research on Social Work Practice•2006•References: 6

    Objective: This study evaluated the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now's (ACORN) efforts to increase the uptake of families claiming the earned income tax credit through door-to-door canvassing and managing free tax preparation clinics in three pilot cities. Method: The mixed-method program evaluation included administrative record review, a telephone survey (N = 1,063), and individual and focus group interviews. Results: Durin…

  • Neither Romance Nor Regulation: Re-evaluating Community

    Open Access•James Defilippis, Robert J Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2006•Cited by: 28•References: 11

    As the realm of the community has grown increasingly important in the contemporary political economy, the theoretical debates surrounding community have also grown in importance and volume. Too often this literature has been either celebratory or dismissive; either romanticizing the concept and thereby elevating it to primary rank as the focal point of societal initiatives, or objecting to its regulated limits and contradictions and thereby dismi…

  • Don’t Be a Blockhead: Acorn, Protest Tactics, and Refund Anticipation Loans

    Open Access•Robert J Fisher, Robert Fisher et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    The recent proliferation of community-based responses to urban problems has been characterized by a shift away from protest tactics to more moderate approaches of building community and consensus, developing social capital, and identifying and improving local assets. This case study examines the persistence and effectiveness of protest tactics in a campaign by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now against H&R Block around pred…

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