John P Frendreis
Biographic Data
| ID | 985049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Frendreis |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Frendreis |
| SIGNATURE | FRENDREIS J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6026-3265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 436 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Direct democracy, policy diffusion, and medicalized marijuana
Virtually all studies of policy diffusion are based on statutory enactments by state legislatures. But a substantial number of medicalized marijuana laws were initiated through citizen initiatives and ratified by referenda (I&R). This case study suggests that the diffusion of laws adopted by I&R requires two modifications to the conventional model of policy diffusion. First, early policy adoptions must occur through direct democracy so that horiz…
Understudied questions of Key's friends and neighbors voting thesis
Objectives This study addressesfour questions posed by V.O. Key's friends‐and‐neighbors (F&N) voting thesis that have been neglected in the scholarly literature. Methods Pooled regression of 101 primary and 66 general elections in Mississippi, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin for the offices of U.S. senator and governor over the period 2002–2016 yielded a total of 11,263 candidate‐county cases. Results F&N effects are most pronounced i…
Postmaterialism and referenda voting to legalize marijuana
Economics, morality, or race: Referenda voting on tribal gaming legalization
Congress authorized states to negotiate with Native American tribes to establish tribal gaming facilities. The lop-sided support in Congress indicated broad agreement that the primary purpose was to promote tribal economic development, yet substantial opposition was manifested in state referenda designed to legalize tribal gaming. What county-level factors explain the level of opposition to tribal gaming? Was it driven by racism, or moral objecti…
Winning awards and gaining recognition: An impact analysis of Apsa section book prizes
This study has two objectives: to rank order the top ten publishers of all 609 “best book” awards by APSA sections from 1985 to 2016 and to show using multiple regression analysis which variables best explain why some award-winning volumes receive more scholarly citations than other books. Our dependent variable is average yearly citation counts from copyright date to 2017, and five independent variables were tested in the analysis: (1) prestige …
Secularization, Modernization, or Population Change: Explaining the Decline of Prohibition in the U nited S tates
Objective While previous cross‐sectional research has suggested a relationship between the prohibition of alcohol sales and the presence of distinctive patterns of religious adherence, the relationship between policy adoption and social change is best evaluated through longitudinal analysis. We assess the extent to which a policy decision by a county to shift away from or toward a policy of prohibition is related to underlying changes in the comp…
Validating Protestant Denominational Classifications Using the Chaves Inerrancy Scale
We validate the classification of 16 “mainline” and 97 “evangelical” Protestant denominations inReligious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000based on Mark Chaves' five-point Biblical “inerrancy” scale. Using Glenmary county data, nearly perfect correlations were derived between the percentage of adherents in “evangelical” denominations and levels three-four on the Chaves scale and between the percentage of adherents in “mainli…
A Hundred Miles of Dry: Religion and the Persistence of Prohibition in the U.S. States
Our fundamental objective in this article is to explain why certain counties within the U.S continue to restrict the sale of alcohol at the start of the 21st century. What factors identified as important for the initial drive for Prohibition remain important nearly 80 years later? We assess to what extent social, political, and economic variables are related to the presence of restrictions on the sale of alcohol at the county-level across the Uni…
A Presidential Economic Scorecard: Performance and Perception
It is assumed that voters blame incumbents for poor economic performance but give credit when the economy is strong. A huge literature shows the impact of economic indicators and economic perceptions on vote choice and presidential popularity, but there is precious little research on whether public perceptions match economic reality. We propose a novel comparison of perceptions with performance by utilizing the Gallup Poll “most important” proble…
Testing Spatial Models of Elections: The Influence of Voters and Elites on Candidate Issue Positions
This research tests spatial models of electoral competition using survey data on state legislative candidates' policy positions and ideology in eight U.S. states. Our data support several hypotheses: 1) candidates' issue positions do not converge; 2) party elites have more extreme positions than do candidates; 3) candidate issue positioning is a function of party‐elite issue positions and union involvement in the campaign, as well as constituency…
Predicting Legislative Output in the First One-Hundred Days, 1897-1995
Predicting Legislative Output in the First One-Hundred Days, 1897-1995
This study applies OLS and Poisson regression analysis to predicting the legislative output of Congress during the first Hundred Days of 1897 to 1995. The celebrated One Hundred Days of 1933 has not encouraged researchers to try to identify the structural, political, and incumbency variables that matter systematically across a range of Congresses. Here the 25 presidential Hundred Days are included along with 25 mid-term “hundred days” for compara…
Accuracy and Bias in Macroeconomic Forecasting by the Administration, the CBO, and the Federal Reserve Board
Short-term forecasts of nominal GNP/GDP growth, inflation, and unemployment by the administration, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Federal Reserve Board are compared for accuracy and for political bias. The most accurate forecasting is done by the CBO, with the Fed a close second. There is also a partisan bias at work within the administration, indicating that decision-makers internalize their policy fears by exaggerating the macroeconom…
The Electoral Relevance of Local Party Organizations
We examine the role that one group of party units-county party organizations-play in electoral politics, based on electoral and county party organizational data collected during 1980-84. Local party chairs report their organizations are involved in a number of electorally relevant activities, including candidate recruitment, joint planning with candidate organizations, and various independent campaign activities. The data demonstrate that county …
Urban Form and the Future: Response to Warren and Dutton
The Information Revolution and Urban Life
This article discusses the potential effects of emerging telematics technologies on urban life. Effects of specific technologies on employment, domestic life, commerce, and leisure activities are considered. The general conclusion is that these technologies will have a greater effect on how people spend their time than where they spend it. This suggests that information technologies alone will probably not lead to the development of a new urban f…
Modeling Spatial Diffusion: Reaction to Wellhofer
Wellhofer's adaptation of Klingman's suggestion that spatial diffusion be modeled as an autoregressive spatial series is questioned on two counts. First, this approach is inappropriate for most classes of diffusion models, including dendritic diffusion systems. Second, the procedure by which Wellhofer has ordered the observations in his Argentine illustration produces a database that bears almost no resemblance to the underlying pattern of causat…
Party Dynamics in the 1980s: Change in County Party Organizational Strength, 1980-1984
A model of decision making and the public service professional
Contending Models of Cabinet Stability
A spirited debate has arisen over the best approach to the analysis of the durability of governing coalitions in parliamentary democracies. In this controversy, Kaare Strom enters a number of criticisms of the stochastic modeling approach offered by Eric C. Browne, John P. Frendreis, and Dennis W. Gleiber, and by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla. In turn, Browne and his colleagues join the issue
Nationalization of the Electorate in the United States
A current debate within the field of U.S. politics revolves around the extent to which the electorate is nationalized, that is, responds to national-level political forces. We provide additional evidence to help resolve this debate. Using the variance-components model of political effects developed by Stokes, we analyze presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, and congressional races for the period 1962–1984. The results indicate that presidentia…
Dissolution of Governments in Scandinavia: A Critical Events Perspective
For many years, scholars have sought to discover why governments in Western European parliamentary democracies frequently dissolve before the time constitutionally mandated for the holding of elections. Recent research has suggested the potential importance of unpredictable changes in the political environment for bringing about governmental dissolutions. Although not specifically described. the importance of ‘critical events‘ is suggested by bot…
The Study of Cabinet Dissolutions in Parliamentary Democracies
While earlier research stressed the importance of attributes of the government, parliament, and political system in determining the point of governmental dissolution, the most recent studies emphasize the random character of this phenomenon. This article describes the points of convergence and divergence between these distinct research phases. Ultimately these differing approaches are seen to be complementary, both conceptually and in their abili…
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution: An Exponential Model of Duration and Stability in Western Democracies
Contemporary research on cabinet stability has focused upon relating specific attributes of political actors and parliamentary settings with the duration of cabinets over time. Statistical testing, however, has failed to produce convincing evidence for explanations based on such deterministic models. Our contention is that such models are misspecified. They focus upon elapsed time in office as the surrogate measure for cabinet stability. We prese…
An “Events” Approach to the Problem of Cabinet Stability
This article seeks to develop the argument that existing theoretical work investigating cabinet stability in parliamentary democracies is in need of reorientation. In the first part, we offer an extended critique of historical and contemporary literature, focusing heavily on contributions from coalition theory and recent empirical research on situational determinants of cabinet longevity. Arguing that the various models associated with both these…
An “Events” Approach to the Problem of Cabinet Stability
This article seeks to develop the argument that existing theoretical work investigating cabinet stability in parliamentary democracies is in need of reorientation. In the first part, we offer an extended critique of historical and contemporary literature, focusing heavily on contributions from coalition theory and recent empirical research on situational determinants of cabinet longevity. Arguing that the various models associated with both these…
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution: An Exponential Model of Duration and Stability in Western Democracies
Contemporary research on cabinet stability has focused upon relating specific attributes of political actors and parliamentary settings with the duration of cabinets over time. Statistical testing, however, has failed to produce convincing evidence for explanations based on such deterministic models. Our contention is that such models are misspecified. They focus upon elapsed time in office as the surrogate measure for cabinet stability. We prese…
Allocating Coalition Payoffs by Conventional Norm: An Assessment of the Evidence from Cabinet Coalition Situations
A problem in the application of formal theories of coalition formation has been whether a conventional rule governs payoff allocations. Specifically, it has been suggested that certain ministerial portfolios are much more desirable than others, and so are allocated in a manner substantially different from that which might characterize the payoff distribution seen as a whole. Using data from 132 European coalition governments (1945-1978), this pap…
Contending Models of Cabinet Stability
A spirited debate has arisen over the best approach to the analysis of the durability of governing coalitions in parliamentary democracies. In this controversy, Kaare Strom enters a number of criticisms of the stochastic modeling approach offered by Eric C. Browne, John P. Frendreis, and Dennis W. Gleiber, and by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla. In turn, Browne and his colleagues join the issue
The Electoral Relevance of Local Party Organizations
We examine the role that one group of party units-county party organizations-play in electoral politics, based on electoral and county party organizational data collected during 1980-84. Local party chairs report their organizations are involved in a number of electorally relevant activities, including candidate recruitment, joint planning with candidate organizations, and various independent campaign activities. The data demonstrate that county …
Explanation of Variation and Detection of Covariation: The Purpose and Logic of Comparative Analysis
Two research strategies, the most similar systems and the most different systems, have each been promoted as being the correct method for conducting comparative research. These two strategies are shown here to be identical in their logical structure, and neither strategy is found to be superior to the other in principle. Their sole differences lie in the amount of variability found in the dependent phenomenon and which independent variables this …
Predicting Legislative Output in the First One-Hundred Days, 1897-1995
This study applies OLS and Poisson regression analysis to predicting the legislative output of Congress during the first Hundred Days of 1897 to 1995. The celebrated One Hundred Days of 1933 has not encouraged researchers to try to identify the structural, political, and incumbency variables that matter systematically across a range of Congresses. Here the 25 presidential Hundred Days are included along with 25 mid-term “hundred days” for compara…
Nationalization of the Electorate in the United States
A current debate within the field of U.S. politics revolves around the extent to which the electorate is nationalized, that is, responds to national-level political forces. We provide additional evidence to help resolve this debate. Using the variance-components model of political effects developed by Stokes, we analyze presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, and congressional races for the period 1962–1984. The results indicate that presidentia…
Party Dynamics in the 1980s: Change in County Party Organizational Strength, 1980-1984
The Study of Cabinet Dissolutions in Parliamentary Democracies
While earlier research stressed the importance of attributes of the government, parliament, and political system in determining the point of governmental dissolution, the most recent studies emphasize the random character of this phenomenon. This article describes the points of convergence and divergence between these distinct research phases. Ultimately these differing approaches are seen to be complementary, both conceptually and in their abili…
Dissolution of Governments in Scandinavia: A Critical Events Perspective
For many years, scholars have sought to discover why governments in Western European parliamentary democracies frequently dissolve before the time constitutionally mandated for the holding of elections. Recent research has suggested the potential importance of unpredictable changes in the political environment for bringing about governmental dissolutions. Although not specifically described. the importance of ‘critical events‘ is suggested by bot…
A Hundred Miles of Dry: Religion and the Persistence of Prohibition in the U.S. States
Our fundamental objective in this article is to explain why certain counties within the U.S continue to restrict the sale of alcohol at the start of the 21st century. What factors identified as important for the initial drive for Prohibition remain important nearly 80 years later? We assess to what extent social, political, and economic variables are related to the presence of restrictions on the sale of alcohol at the county-level across the Uni…
Testing Spatial Models of Elections: The Influence of Voters and Elites on Candidate Issue Positions
This research tests spatial models of electoral competition using survey data on state legislative candidates' policy positions and ideology in eight U.S. states. Our data support several hypotheses: 1) candidates' issue positions do not converge; 2) party elites have more extreme positions than do candidates; 3) candidate issue positioning is a function of party‐elite issue positions and union involvement in the campaign, as well as constituency…
Accuracy and Bias in Macroeconomic Forecasting by the Administration, the CBO, and the Federal Reserve Board
Short-term forecasts of nominal GNP/GDP growth, inflation, and unemployment by the administration, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Federal Reserve Board are compared for accuracy and for political bias. The most accurate forecasting is done by the CBO, with the Fed a close second. There is also a partisan bias at work within the administration, indicating that decision-makers internalize their policy fears by exaggerating the macroeconom…
Validating Protestant Denominational Classifications Using the Chaves Inerrancy Scale
We validate the classification of 16 “mainline” and 97 “evangelical” Protestant denominations inReligious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000based on Mark Chaves' five-point Biblical “inerrancy” scale. Using Glenmary county data, nearly perfect correlations were derived between the percentage of adherents in “evangelical” denominations and levels three-four on the Chaves scale and between the percentage of adherents in “mainli…
Winning awards and gaining recognition: An impact analysis of Apsa section book prizes
This study has two objectives: to rank order the top ten publishers of all 609 “best book” awards by APSA sections from 1985 to 2016 and to show using multiple regression analysis which variables best explain why some award-winning volumes receive more scholarly citations than other books. Our dependent variable is average yearly citation counts from copyright date to 2017, and five independent variables were tested in the analysis: (1) prestige …
Direct democracy, policy diffusion, and medicalized marijuana
Virtually all studies of policy diffusion are based on statutory enactments by state legislatures. But a substantial number of medicalized marijuana laws were initiated through citizen initiatives and ratified by referenda (I&R). This case study suggests that the diffusion of laws adopted by I&R requires two modifications to the conventional model of policy diffusion. First, early policy adoptions must occur through direct democracy so that horiz…
Understudied questions of Key's friends and neighbors voting thesis
Objectives This study addressesfour questions posed by V.O. Key's friends‐and‐neighbors (F&N) voting thesis that have been neglected in the scholarly literature. Methods Pooled regression of 101 primary and 66 general elections in Mississippi, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin for the offices of U.S. senator and governor over the period 2002–2016 yielded a total of 11,263 candidate‐county cases. Results F&N effects are most pronounced i…
Secularization, Modernization, or Population Change: Explaining the Decline of Prohibition in the U nited S tates
Objective While previous cross‐sectional research has suggested a relationship between the prohibition of alcohol sales and the presence of distinctive patterns of religious adherence, the relationship between policy adoption and social change is best evaluated through longitudinal analysis. We assess the extent to which a policy decision by a county to shift away from or toward a policy of prohibition is related to underlying changes in the comp…
The Nominating Process in Nonpartisan Elections: Petition Signing as an Act of Support
Economics, morality, or race: Referenda voting on tribal gaming legalization
Congress authorized states to negotiate with Native American tribes to establish tribal gaming facilities. The lop-sided support in Congress indicated broad agreement that the primary purpose was to promote tribal economic development, yet substantial opposition was manifested in state referenda designed to legalize tribal gaming. What county-level factors explain the level of opposition to tribal gaming? Was it driven by racism, or moral objecti…
A Presidential Economic Scorecard: Performance and Perception
It is assumed that voters blame incumbents for poor economic performance but give credit when the economy is strong. A huge literature shows the impact of economic indicators and economic perceptions on vote choice and presidential popularity, but there is precious little research on whether public perceptions match economic reality. We propose a novel comparison of perceptions with performance by utilizing the Gallup Poll “most important” proble…
The Information Revolution and Urban Life
This article discusses the potential effects of emerging telematics technologies on urban life. Effects of specific technologies on employment, domestic life, commerce, and leisure activities are considered. The general conclusion is that these technologies will have a greater effect on how people spend their time than where they spend it. This suggests that information technologies alone will probably not lead to the development of a new urban f…
Modeling Spatial Diffusion: Reaction to Wellhofer
Wellhofer's adaptation of Klingman's suggestion that spatial diffusion be modeled as an autoregressive spatial series is questioned on two counts. First, this approach is inappropriate for most classes of diffusion models, including dendritic diffusion systems. Second, the procedure by which Wellhofer has ordered the observations in his Argentine illustration produces a database that bears almost no resemblance to the underlying pattern of causat…
A model of decision making and the public service professional
The Nominating Process in Nonpartisan Elections: Petition Signing as an Act of Support
Allocating Coalition Payoffs by Conventional Norm: An Assessment of the Evidence from Cabinet Coalition Situations
A problem in the application of formal theories of coalition formation has been whether a conventional rule governs payoff allocations. Specifically, it has been suggested that certain ministerial portfolios are much more desirable than others, and so are allocated in a manner substantially different from that which might characterize the payoff distribution seen as a whole. Using data from 132 European coalition governments (1945-1978), this pap…
Innovation: A Practice in Search of a Theory, or so What Does All This Research Mean, Anyway
Understanding the process of innovation adoption is of obvious importance to both researchers and practitioners in a lime when city governments are under increasing fiscal pressure. Unfortunately, previous research results in this area have been seen to be highly unstable, and several research design faults have been identified as contributing to the lack of uniform findings. This article incorporates several suggested design improvements and exa…
Explanation of Variation and Detection of Covariation: The Purpose and Logic of Comparative Analysis
Two research strategies, the most similar systems and the most different systems, have each been promoted as being the correct method for conducting comparative research. These two strategies are shown here to be identical in their logical structure, and neither strategy is found to be superior to the other in principle. Their sole differences lie in the amount of variability found in the dependent phenomenon and which independent variables this …
An “Events” Approach to the Problem of Cabinet Stability
This article seeks to develop the argument that existing theoretical work investigating cabinet stability in parliamentary democracies is in need of reorientation. In the first part, we offer an extended critique of historical and contemporary literature, focusing heavily on contributions from coalition theory and recent empirical research on situational determinants of cabinet longevity. Arguing that the various models associated with both these…
Dissolution of Governments in Scandinavia: A Critical Events Perspective
For many years, scholars have sought to discover why governments in Western European parliamentary democracies frequently dissolve before the time constitutionally mandated for the holding of elections. Recent research has suggested the potential importance of unpredictable changes in the political environment for bringing about governmental dissolutions. Although not specifically described. the importance of ‘critical events‘ is suggested by bot…
The Study of Cabinet Dissolutions in Parliamentary Democracies
While earlier research stressed the importance of attributes of the government, parliament, and political system in determining the point of governmental dissolution, the most recent studies emphasize the random character of this phenomenon. This article describes the points of convergence and divergence between these distinct research phases. Ultimately these differing approaches are seen to be complementary, both conceptually and in their abili…
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution: An Exponential Model of Duration and Stability in Western Democracies
Contemporary research on cabinet stability has focused upon relating specific attributes of political actors and parliamentary settings with the duration of cabinets over time. Statistical testing, however, has failed to produce convincing evidence for explanations based on such deterministic models. Our contention is that such models are misspecified. They focus upon elapsed time in office as the surrogate measure for cabinet stability. We prese…
Nationalization of the Electorate in the United States
A current debate within the field of U.S. politics revolves around the extent to which the electorate is nationalized, that is, responds to national-level political forces. We provide additional evidence to help resolve this debate. Using the variance-components model of political effects developed by Stokes, we analyze presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, and congressional races for the period 1962–1984. The results indicate that presidentia…
A model of decision making and the public service professional
Contending Models of Cabinet Stability
A spirited debate has arisen over the best approach to the analysis of the durability of governing coalitions in parliamentary democracies. In this controversy, Kaare Strom enters a number of criticisms of the stochastic modeling approach offered by Eric C. Browne, John P. Frendreis, and Dennis W. Gleiber, and by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla. In turn, Browne and his colleagues join the issue
Urban Form and the Future: Response to Warren and Dutton
The Information Revolution and Urban Life
This article discusses the potential effects of emerging telematics technologies on urban life. Effects of specific technologies on employment, domestic life, commerce, and leisure activities are considered. The general conclusion is that these technologies will have a greater effect on how people spend their time than where they spend it. This suggests that information technologies alone will probably not lead to the development of a new urban f…
Modeling Spatial Diffusion: Reaction to Wellhofer
Wellhofer's adaptation of Klingman's suggestion that spatial diffusion be modeled as an autoregressive spatial series is questioned on two counts. First, this approach is inappropriate for most classes of diffusion models, including dendritic diffusion systems. Second, the procedure by which Wellhofer has ordered the observations in his Argentine illustration produces a database that bears almost no resemblance to the underlying pattern of causat…
Party Dynamics in the 1980s: Change in County Party Organizational Strength, 1980-1984
The Electoral Relevance of Local Party Organizations
We examine the role that one group of party units-county party organizations-play in electoral politics, based on electoral and county party organizational data collected during 1980-84. Local party chairs report their organizations are involved in a number of electorally relevant activities, including candidate recruitment, joint planning with candidate organizations, and various independent campaign activities. The data demonstrate that county …
Accuracy and Bias in Macroeconomic Forecasting by the Administration, the CBO, and the Federal Reserve Board
Short-term forecasts of nominal GNP/GDP growth, inflation, and unemployment by the administration, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Federal Reserve Board are compared for accuracy and for political bias. The most accurate forecasting is done by the CBO, with the Fed a close second. There is also a partisan bias at work within the administration, indicating that decision-makers internalize their policy fears by exaggerating the macroeconom…
Predicting Legislative Output in the First One-Hundred Days, 1897-1995
Predicting Legislative Output in the First One-Hundred Days, 1897-1995
This study applies OLS and Poisson regression analysis to predicting the legislative output of Congress during the first Hundred Days of 1897 to 1995. The celebrated One Hundred Days of 1933 has not encouraged researchers to try to identify the structural, political, and incumbency variables that matter systematically across a range of Congresses. Here the 25 presidential Hundred Days are included along with 25 mid-term “hundred days” for compara…
Testing Spatial Models of Elections: The Influence of Voters and Elites on Candidate Issue Positions
This research tests spatial models of electoral competition using survey data on state legislative candidates' policy positions and ideology in eight U.S. states. Our data support several hypotheses: 1) candidates' issue positions do not converge; 2) party elites have more extreme positions than do candidates; 3) candidate issue positioning is a function of party‐elite issue positions and union involvement in the campaign, as well as constituency…
A Presidential Economic Scorecard: Performance and Perception
It is assumed that voters blame incumbents for poor economic performance but give credit when the economy is strong. A huge literature shows the impact of economic indicators and economic perceptions on vote choice and presidential popularity, but there is precious little research on whether public perceptions match economic reality. We propose a novel comparison of perceptions with performance by utilizing the Gallup Poll “most important” proble…
A Hundred Miles of Dry: Religion and the Persistence of Prohibition in the U.S. States
Our fundamental objective in this article is to explain why certain counties within the U.S continue to restrict the sale of alcohol at the start of the 21st century. What factors identified as important for the initial drive for Prohibition remain important nearly 80 years later? We assess to what extent social, political, and economic variables are related to the presence of restrictions on the sale of alcohol at the county-level across the Uni…
Validating Protestant Denominational Classifications Using the Chaves Inerrancy Scale
We validate the classification of 16 “mainline” and 97 “evangelical” Protestant denominations inReligious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000based on Mark Chaves' five-point Biblical “inerrancy” scale. Using Glenmary county data, nearly perfect correlations were derived between the percentage of adherents in “evangelical” denominations and levels three-four on the Chaves scale and between the percentage of adherents in “mainli…
Secularization, Modernization, or Population Change: Explaining the Decline of Prohibition in the U nited S tates
Objective While previous cross‐sectional research has suggested a relationship between the prohibition of alcohol sales and the presence of distinctive patterns of religious adherence, the relationship between policy adoption and social change is best evaluated through longitudinal analysis. We assess the extent to which a policy decision by a county to shift away from or toward a policy of prohibition is related to underlying changes in the comp…
Winning awards and gaining recognition: An impact analysis of Apsa section book prizes
This study has two objectives: to rank order the top ten publishers of all 609 “best book” awards by APSA sections from 1985 to 2016 and to show using multiple regression analysis which variables best explain why some award-winning volumes receive more scholarly citations than other books. Our dependent variable is average yearly citation counts from copyright date to 2017, and five independent variables were tested in the analysis: (1) prestige …
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