Douglas Muzzio
Biographic Data
| ID | 953936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Muzzio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Muzzio |
| SIGNATURE | MUZZIO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3333-0554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Menace II Society? Urban Poverty and Underclass Narratives in American Movies
Menace II Society?” investigates cinematic portrayals of American urban poverty and the urban underclass as part of an ongoing public discourse on the nature of the urban poor, the causes and conditions of their poverty, and the appropriate responses from society. Movies have tended to portray poverty as environmentally caused and sustained, often directing ambitious characters toward criminality with a to-understand-all-is-to-forgive-all logic. …
The Republic in the Metropolis
“Amap of the world that does not include utopia,”declared Oscar Wilde, “is not even worth glancing at.” Even the most casual glance would alight on Plato's Republic, which glows no less fiercely today than in the Athens of some twenty-three centuries ago. How ought a society to be organized, it asks. We would surely want the society to be guided by virtue, Plato observes, but few have the innate natural aptitude plus the education and experience …
Dead Ends
Hobbes in the City
Drivers and Consequences of Citizen Satisfaction
Using data from two telephone surveys of New York City residents conducted during 2000 and 2001, this article employs the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) model to examine the drivers—and behavioral consequences—of overall satisfaction with local government services. While the ACSI model has been widely used to analyze customer satisfaction in the private sector and, more recently, in the federal government, it has not been tried in a …
Explaining the Race Gap in Satisfaction with Urban Services
Although racial differences in satisfaction with urban services have been observed for decades, perhaps the most consistent finding in the literature on citizen satisfaction and urban service delivery, little systematic effort has been directed at explaining this gap. Using two years of survey data from New York City, the authors find that socioeconomic status (SES) and neighborhood of residence explain only a small part of the gap in satisfactio…
Pleasantville
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the …
Factors Related to Self-Sufficiency in a Distressed Public Housing Community
This article examines factors related to family economic self-sufficiency in a distressed and geographically isolated public housing community. Using data from a survey of over 400 households living in a public housing development in New York City that has received HOPE VI funding, the analysis focuses both on self-reported reasons for joblessness and on a logistic regression model of the characteristics and resources that distinguish self-suffic…
Decent People Shouldn’T Live Here”
This paper explores how the cinema uses the US urban scene as a landscape of the imagination. The essay is an exploratory look at the reactions to the US city by some of our most acute and sophisticated observers, American moviemakers. The assumption underlying this effort is that films help structure the context within which urban affairs take place, are perceived, and are studied. Movies can tell us much about our urban pasts, presents, and fut…
Dial-In Democracy
LOUIS BOLCE are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. GERALD DE MAIO are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. DOUGLAS MUZZIO is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and director of the Baruch College Survey Unit
The 1992 Republican “Tent”
Journal Article The 1992 Republican “Tent”: No Blacks Walked In Get access Louis Bolce, Louis Bolce LOUIS BOLCE are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gerald De Maio, Gerald De Maio GERALD DE MAIO are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York, Search for other works by this …
Blacks and the Republican Party
Why Blacks Love headlined the New Republic in May 1990. A month earlier the New York Times reported that George Bush's approval rating among blacks -56 percent was the highest for a Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower three decades earlier. Tom Wicker wondered Why is he so popular?' Bush's standing with blacks eighteen months into his administration led Republican pollster Robert Teeter to suggest that Bush might double his share of the …
The Urban Basement Revisited
The Equal Rights Amendment, Public Opinion, & American Constitutionalism
The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, given the fact that national surveys of public opinion regularly showed majorities in support of it, has raised questions about the responsiveness of American political institutions to the popular will. This article analyzes national survey data from 1976 through 1982 and concludes that, although a nationally distributed majority initially favored ratification, popular support for the ERA was unstable and…
Economic Development, Housing and Zoning
Extensive economic development and central business district expansion generate both positive and negative public impacts; assessing those impacts is a major challenge for urban social and economic analysts. For students of urban politics and policy processes, the strategies and conflict patterns surrounding the generation and distribution of these impacts are of central interest. This paper examines exactive zoning/housing trust fund programs in…
Mapping Candidate Systems Via Approval Voting
Mapping Candidate Systems via Approval Voting
The Smell in the Urban Basement
Unanimity in the supreme court
The road to the Six Day War
Sources of Middle East International Event Data
The analysis of international event data has in the past several years become a major trend in quantitative and non-quantitative international politics. The upsurge of interest in event data parallels the attempt in the late 1960’s to test empirically the international relations theorizing of the 1950’s. Charles McClelland has argued forcefully that systems theory and other theories which focus on the structure, interactions and overt behavior in…
Drivers and Consequences of Citizen Satisfaction
Using data from two telephone surveys of New York City residents conducted during 2000 and 2001, this article employs the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) model to examine the drivers—and behavioral consequences—of overall satisfaction with local government services. While the ACSI model has been widely used to analyze customer satisfaction in the private sector and, more recently, in the federal government, it has not been tried in a …
Explaining the Race Gap in Satisfaction with Urban Services
Although racial differences in satisfaction with urban services have been observed for decades, perhaps the most consistent finding in the literature on citizen satisfaction and urban service delivery, little systematic effort has been directed at explaining this gap. Using two years of survey data from New York City, the authors find that socioeconomic status (SES) and neighborhood of residence explain only a small part of the gap in satisfactio…
Dial-In Democracy
LOUIS BOLCE are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. GERALD DE MAIO are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. DOUGLAS MUZZIO is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and director of the Baruch College Survey Unit
Blacks and the Republican Party
Why Blacks Love headlined the New Republic in May 1990. A month earlier the New York Times reported that George Bush's approval rating among blacks -56 percent was the highest for a Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower three decades earlier. Tom Wicker wondered Why is he so popular?' Bush's standing with blacks eighteen months into his administration led Republican pollster Robert Teeter to suggest that Bush might double his share of the …
Factors Related to Self-Sufficiency in a Distressed Public Housing Community
This article examines factors related to family economic self-sufficiency in a distressed and geographically isolated public housing community. Using data from a survey of over 400 households living in a public housing development in New York City that has received HOPE VI funding, the analysis focuses both on self-reported reasons for joblessness and on a logistic regression model of the characteristics and resources that distinguish self-suffic…
The road to the Six Day War
Decent People Shouldn’T Live Here”
This paper explores how the cinema uses the US urban scene as a landscape of the imagination. The essay is an exploratory look at the reactions to the US city by some of our most acute and sophisticated observers, American moviemakers. The assumption underlying this effort is that films help structure the context within which urban affairs take place, are perceived, and are studied. Movies can tell us much about our urban pasts, presents, and fut…
The 1992 Republican “Tent”
Journal Article The 1992 Republican “Tent”: No Blacks Walked In Get access Louis Bolce, Louis Bolce LOUIS BOLCE are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gerald De Maio, Gerald De Maio GERALD DE MAIO are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York, Search for other works by this …
Unanimity in the supreme court
Sources of Middle East International Event Data
The analysis of international event data has in the past several years become a major trend in quantitative and non-quantitative international politics. The upsurge of interest in event data parallels the attempt in the late 1960’s to test empirically the international relations theorizing of the 1950’s. Charles McClelland has argued forcefully that systems theory and other theories which focus on the structure, interactions and overt behavior in…
Pleasantville
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the …
Economic Development, Housing and Zoning
Extensive economic development and central business district expansion generate both positive and negative public impacts; assessing those impacts is a major challenge for urban social and economic analysts. For students of urban politics and policy processes, the strategies and conflict patterns surrounding the generation and distribution of these impacts are of central interest. This paper examines exactive zoning/housing trust fund programs in…
Menace II Society? Urban Poverty and Underclass Narratives in American Movies
Menace II Society?” investigates cinematic portrayals of American urban poverty and the urban underclass as part of an ongoing public discourse on the nature of the urban poor, the causes and conditions of their poverty, and the appropriate responses from society. Movies have tended to portray poverty as environmentally caused and sustained, often directing ambitious characters toward criminality with a to-understand-all-is-to-forgive-all logic. …
The Equal Rights Amendment, Public Opinion, & American Constitutionalism
The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, given the fact that national surveys of public opinion regularly showed majorities in support of it, has raised questions about the responsiveness of American political institutions to the popular will. This article analyzes national survey data from 1976 through 1982 and concludes that, although a nationally distributed majority initially favored ratification, popular support for the ERA was unstable and…
Sources of Middle East International Event Data
The analysis of international event data has in the past several years become a major trend in quantitative and non-quantitative international politics. The upsurge of interest in event data parallels the attempt in the late 1960’s to test empirically the international relations theorizing of the 1950’s. Charles McClelland has argued forcefully that systems theory and other theories which focus on the structure, interactions and overt behavior in…
The road to the Six Day War
Unanimity in the supreme court
The Smell in the Urban Basement
Economic Development, Housing and Zoning
Extensive economic development and central business district expansion generate both positive and negative public impacts; assessing those impacts is a major challenge for urban social and economic analysts. For students of urban politics and policy processes, the strategies and conflict patterns surrounding the generation and distribution of these impacts are of central interest. This paper examines exactive zoning/housing trust fund programs in…
Mapping Candidate Systems Via Approval Voting
Mapping Candidate Systems via Approval Voting
The Equal Rights Amendment, Public Opinion, & American Constitutionalism
The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, given the fact that national surveys of public opinion regularly showed majorities in support of it, has raised questions about the responsiveness of American political institutions to the popular will. This article analyzes national survey data from 1976 through 1982 and concludes that, although a nationally distributed majority initially favored ratification, popular support for the ERA was unstable and…
The Urban Basement Revisited
Blacks and the Republican Party
Why Blacks Love headlined the New Republic in May 1990. A month earlier the New York Times reported that George Bush's approval rating among blacks -56 percent was the highest for a Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower three decades earlier. Tom Wicker wondered Why is he so popular?' Bush's standing with blacks eighteen months into his administration led Republican pollster Robert Teeter to suggest that Bush might double his share of the …
The 1992 Republican “Tent”
Journal Article The 1992 Republican “Tent”: No Blacks Walked In Get access Louis Bolce, Louis Bolce LOUIS BOLCE are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gerald De Maio, Gerald De Maio GERALD DE MAIO are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York, Search for other works by this …
Decent People Shouldn’T Live Here”
This paper explores how the cinema uses the US urban scene as a landscape of the imagination. The essay is an exploratory look at the reactions to the US city by some of our most acute and sophisticated observers, American moviemakers. The assumption underlying this effort is that films help structure the context within which urban affairs take place, are perceived, and are studied. Movies can tell us much about our urban pasts, presents, and fut…
Dial-In Democracy
LOUIS BOLCE are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. GERALD DE MAIO are associate professors of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. DOUGLAS MUZZIO is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and director of the Baruch College Survey Unit
Factors Related to Self-Sufficiency in a Distressed Public Housing Community
This article examines factors related to family economic self-sufficiency in a distressed and geographically isolated public housing community. Using data from a survey of over 400 households living in a public housing development in New York City that has received HOPE VI funding, the analysis focuses both on self-reported reasons for joblessness and on a logistic regression model of the characteristics and resources that distinguish self-suffic…
Pleasantville
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the …
Drivers and Consequences of Citizen Satisfaction
Using data from two telephone surveys of New York City residents conducted during 2000 and 2001, this article employs the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) model to examine the drivers—and behavioral consequences—of overall satisfaction with local government services. While the ACSI model has been widely used to analyze customer satisfaction in the private sector and, more recently, in the federal government, it has not been tried in a …
Explaining the Race Gap in Satisfaction with Urban Services
Although racial differences in satisfaction with urban services have been observed for decades, perhaps the most consistent finding in the literature on citizen satisfaction and urban service delivery, little systematic effort has been directed at explaining this gap. Using two years of survey data from New York City, the authors find that socioeconomic status (SES) and neighborhood of residence explain only a small part of the gap in satisfactio…
Hobbes in the City
The Republic in the Metropolis
“Amap of the world that does not include utopia,”declared Oscar Wilde, “is not even worth glancing at.” Even the most casual glance would alight on Plato's Republic, which glows no less fiercely today than in the Athens of some twenty-three centuries ago. How ought a society to be organized, it asks. We would surely want the society to be guided by virtue, Plato observes, but few have the innate natural aptitude plus the education and experience …
Dead Ends
Menace II Society? Urban Poverty and Underclass Narratives in American Movies
Menace II Society?” investigates cinematic portrayals of American urban poverty and the urban underclass as part of an ongoing public discourse on the nature of the urban poor, the causes and conditions of their poverty, and the appropriate responses from society. Movies have tended to portray poverty as environmentally caused and sustained, often directing ambitious characters toward criminality with a to-understand-all-is-to-forgive-all logic. …
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