Arnold Vedlitz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3700915 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Arnold Vedlitz |
| PRENOMES | Arnold |
| SOBRENOME | Vedlitz |
| ASSINATURA | VEDLITZ A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2070-2697 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1170 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
Understanding Climate Policy Support
Introduction Effective climate governance requires public support across partisan and institutional divides. Although climate concern, institutional trust, and political ideology are known predictors of environmental attitudes, their combined effects remain insufficiently understood. This study examines how these factors interact to shape support for climate‐related policies. Methods Survey data from 734 residents of the Austin, Texas metropolita…
Estimating deprivation cost functions for power outages during disasters
Systems for the generation and distribution of electrical power represents critical infrastructure and, when extreme weather events disrupt such systems, this imposes substantial costs on consumers. These costs can be conceptualized as deprivation costs—an increasing function of time without service—quantifiable through individuals' willingness to pay for power restoration. Despite widespread recognition of outage impacts, a gap in the research l…
Socially Equitable Public Service Provision
The challenge of building and maintaining public infrastructure in the face of climate change and natural hazards necessitates greater citizen involvement in decision-making processes. Coproduction aims to ensure equitable service distribution by engaging a diverse range of citizens. However, the literature highlights disparities, with certain citizens having greater resources for participation. This study explores how individual socioeconomic fa…
Perceived vs. objective risk
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs)
Solving problems through collaborative efforts of public, private, and nonprofit groups has become more important in recent years. One type of public-private partnerships (PPPs) has been studied in some depth – government-business contracts for transportation infrastructure. Little is known, however, about other types of partnership arrangements that deal with other community issues or services and may involve different combinations of actors. An…
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process
Drawing insights from past scholarship, this paper offers theoretical expectations and empirical measures to examine federal bureaucrats' access to the congressional pre‐legislation agenda‐setting process on the issue of global warming and climate change (GWCC). Based on an original dataset covering all congressional GWCC hearings and testimonies from 1976 to 2007, we employ both traditional indicators and two new measures to assess three key ele…
Tainted trust
Adverse health and economic impacts of air pollution in China have been well documented, but few studies have examined how air pollution may affect people’s political trust in their government. From an expectation-performance perspective, we argue that air pollution makes Chinese citizens feel that their basic needs and well-being are under-protected by the government, thereby dampening their political trust. Empirically, we employ a unique datas…
Exploring public participation modes in government
In this study, we compare three modes of public participation in government (policy endorsement, coproduction, and co-investment) and introduce a two-layer explanation to the variations in citizens’ willingness to participate in these modes. We present effort as an overarching factor so more demanding modes receive lower public support. We also argue that issue importance, trust in government, and political ideology shape individuals’ degree of p…
The dark side of close-ties communities
This study explores public risk attitudes of environmental hazards with a focus on threats such as air, water and soil pollution or toxicants spillage. We emphasize the social dimension of risk and analyze how strong networks of social connections affect community members' sensitivity to the health risks from pollution-type hazards. We develop a model that integrates the social dimension using aspects like social capital with a set of individual-…
Unveiling health inequities
Objective This study examines the racial disparity in health‐care coverage between Hispanics and whites. Racial disparities in accessing health‐care services have worsened in the United States, exacerbating social and economic inequality between whites and racial/ethnic minority groups. While existing research primarily attributes these disparities to income differences among racial groups, this study focuses on the mediating role of social capit…
Growing Community Resilience from the Grassroots
This article explores the factors that influence citizens’ confidence in public and nonprofit sectors in the context of natural hazards. Utilizing a survey of residents in Austin, Texas, USA, we model the influence of residents’ hazard risk awareness on the perceived confidence in formal institutions that are responsible for hazard preparedness and response. The empirical results of structural equation modeling show that perceived confidence in p…
Optimism and pessimism toward science
While there have always been those in the American public who mistrust science and scientists' views of the world, they have tended to be a minority of the larger public. Recent COVID-19 related events indicate that could be changing for some key groups. What might explain the present state of mistrust of science within an important component of the American public? In this study, we delve deeply into this question and examine what citizens today…
How to activate nonprofit beneficiaries for community resilience? Examining the role of risk perception and evaluation of nonprofit services on prosocial behavior in the context of natural hazards
Nonprofit organizations serve an essential role in response to natural hazards by delivering services to affected communities and those in need. However, little is known about the drivers of nonprofit-resident engagement during and aftermath of emergencies. Utilizing survey data collected in Austin, Texas, we address this gap by analyzing how beneficiaries of nonprofit services become donors and/or volunteers. Specifically, this study empirically…
Far from home
Local-level managers’ attitudes towards natural hazards resilience
Prior research on natural hazards resilience demonstrate that citizens favor immediate and direct solutions to disasters, and are less supportive of future-oriented prevention strategies. These perceptions create incentives for politicians to adopt similar views. In this study, we explore the views of an intermediate group of stakeholders – public and professional managers who play a role in the process of designing disaster relief and prevention…
Unpacking Public Perceptions of Terrorism
The study explores terrorism threat perceptions, focusing on the American public’s views of conventional and cyber-terrorism methods. Based on a national survey data, we find that when asked about the likelihood and the extent of threat associated with each type of terror method, citizens make clear and significant distinctions. Furthermore, these distinctions translate to variations in counter-terrorism policy preferences. Our analyses reveal th…
Institutional congruence for resilience management in interdependent infrastructure systems
A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice
Past research on problem definition and public policy primarily focuses on the macro‐system level. In this study, we propose a micro model of problem definition and policy choice at the individual level. We argue that while individual citizens' problem definitions and policy preferences are rooted in and filtered through their predisposition characteristics (such as socioeconomic status, political orientation, and informational base), their polic…
How social capital shapes citizen willingness to co‐invest in public service
Why are citizens in some communities more willing to co‐invest in public services than citizens in other communities? Citizen co‐investment has become an important policy tool for governments to finance public services, yet little research has theorized and empirically examined the impacts of community contexts on citizens' willingness to invest their personal resources in public services. As social capital is often viewed as an important determi…
Does Political Sophistication Minimize Value Conflict? Evidence from a Heteroskedastic Graded IRT Model of Opinions toward Climate Change
When citizens hold multiple values relevant to their policy opinions, they might experience value conflict, value reconciliation or make a value trade-off. Yet, it is unclear which individuals are able to manage their multiple values in these ways. We posit a sophistication-interaction theory of value pluralism where the most politically sophisticated individuals are able to reconcile the existence of multiple values, thus increasing the stabilit…
Throwing it out
Social Capital, Knowledge, and the Environment
This article contributes to the literature on social capital and the environment in two ways. First, we identify a relationship between interpersonal discussion networks and assessed and perceived individual scientific knowledge. We then examine if knowledge mediates the relationship between discussion networks and policy preferences about climate change (CC). Using nationally representative survey data, we examine the extent to which an individu…
Investigating the Determinants and Effects of Local Drought Awareness
Literature in environmental public opinion has recently focused on the linkages between biophysical conditions and opinion formation. Where environmental issues and weather are more severe, individuals have been shown to have greater perception of environmental risk and greater support for environmental protection. Perceptions, however, do not always reflect actual weather, and perceptions may actually matter more when it comes to the formation o…
Bureaucratic expertise, overconfidence, and policy choice
Classic theory on bureaucracy suggests that one primary source of bureaucratic power in public administration and the policy‐making process derives from bureaucratic issue‐specific expertise. Studies in psychology and behavioral economics suggest that experienced experts tend to be overconfident in estimating their expertise, but few researchers have examined whether experienced bureaucrats are prone to overconfidence and, if so, how overconfiden…
The Politics of Problem Definition
Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation
While various models have been developed to account for differences in participation levels between African-Americans and Anglos, the empirical evidence for these models is rather limited; fails to include ethnic minority groups other than African-Americans; and assumes that the models are equally effective in explaining the behavior of all individuals regardless of race or ethnicity. This paper addresses these limitations by evaluating five mode…
Issue Definition, Information Processing, and the Politics of Global Warming
Past research has proposed various macrolevel theories of issue definition and agenda setting. However, we propose a microlevel theory of issue definition rooted in how individuals process information. We theorize that people process information about policy issues through a filter that emphasizes past assessments, ideology, background, social cues, and the continuing intrusion of new information. Most of these factors lead individual issue defin…
Can We Generalize from Student Experiments to the Real World in Political Science, Military Affairs, and International Relations
The authors conducted an experiment with a group of military officers and replicated it with a group of students at a public university in the United States. The experimental scenario dealt with a decision problem in the area of counterterrorism. The authors found that while more than one-third of students recommended doing nothing, the overwhelming majority of military officers (more than 90 percent) recommended doing something. Also, military o…
Climate Change Vulnerability and Policy Support
Climate scientists note that the effects of climate change vary regionally. Citizen willingness to absorb the costs of adaptation and mitigation policies may correspond with these place-specific effects. Geographic information systems (GIS) analytic techniques are used to map and measure survey respondents' climate change risk at various levels of spatial resolution and precision. Spatial data are used to analyze multiple measures of climate chan…
Risk, Stress, and Capacity
Climate change and mitigation policies adopted by a locality indelibly impact urban form, landscape, and economy. The Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) has become a dominant movement organizing the localities to proactively address climate change. This study examines metropolitan area commitment to the CCP. Geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical techniques are used to analyze metros on dimensions of climate change risk, stress, an…
Collective Action and Citizen Responses to Global Warming
Explaining Media and Congressional Attention to Global Climate Change, 1969-2005
Agenda theories suggest that problem indicator, focusing event, and information feedback enhance issue attention. However, few studies have systematically tested this. This study, using time series data and vector autoregression (VAR), examines how climate problem indicator, high-profile international event, and climate science feedback influence media and congressional attention to global warming and climate change. The findings confirm that the…
Social vulnerability and the natural and built environment
Studies on the impacts of hurricanes, tropical storms, and tornados indicate that poor communities of colour suffer disproportionately in human death and injury.2 Few quantitative studies have been conducted on the degree to which flood events affect socially vulnerable populations. We address this research void by analysing 832 countywide flood events in Texas from 1997-2001. Specifically, we examine whether geographic localities characterised b…
Collective Action, Environmental Activism, and Air Quality Policy
This article attempts to respond to Ostrom’s call for a behavioral model of collective action by generalizing the collective interest model of mass political action to explain citizen policy support and personal behavioral intentions in the context of air quality policy. The collective action problems inherent in air quality policy provide a critical research setting for testing hypotheses of the collective interest model. Key elements of the col…
Understanding Local Policymaking
Despite the increasing interest in policy agenda research in recent years, very few studies have focused their attention on the relevant processes at the local level. Drawing on agenda‐setting research, particularly Kingdon's multiple‐streams framework, this study examines the key forces and factors, as well as their relative importance, in local agenda setting, problem identification, and alternative policy selection. Data are collected from 271…
Examining the determinants of public environmental concern
The effect of perceived and assessed knowledge of climate change on public policy concerns
Bureaucratic expertise, overconfidence, and policy choice
Classic theory on bureaucracy suggests that one primary source of bureaucratic power in public administration and the policy‐making process derives from bureaucratic issue‐specific expertise. Studies in psychology and behavioral economics suggest that experienced experts tend to be overconfident in estimating their expertise, but few researchers have examined whether experienced bureaucrats are prone to overconfidence and, if so, how overconfiden…
Does Heavy Turnout Help Democrats in Presidential Elections
There is conventional political wisdom that high voter turnout in a U.S. presidential election advantages the majority party. Because the Democratic party has been the dominant party in recent decades, this turnout advantage is often believed to accrue to Democratic presidential candidates. In an article in the June 1980 issue of the Review, James DeNardo challenged this conventional view. Indeed, he claimed that the majority party was likely to …
Citizen Contacts with Local Governments
The relationship between area social well-being and the extent of citizen-initiated contacts with local governments is examined for Dallas and Houston. The findings of this study, negative linear relationships between social well-being and contacting, are compared and contrasted with those of Jones and associates (1977) who, studying Detroit, found a parabolic relationship between social well-being and contacting behavior. The needs/awareness mod…
Explaining Popular Trust in the Department of Homeland Security
Research reveals that levels of reported trust in government are at a relatively low level—among the lowest in the period studied. At the same time, reported approval for specific administrative agencies varies widely, with some agencies receiving little support and others a great deal. This raises an important question: what factors drive trust in specific agencies? This article investigates the question in relation to the Department of Homeland…
Public Support for Climate Change Policy
This study examines the factors that explain public preferences for a set of climate change policy alternatives. While scholarly work indicates a relationship between attitudes and values on views toward specific issues, the literature often examines general support for issues rather than specific policy proposals. Consequently, it is unclear the extent to which these attitudes and values affect specific policy considerations. This project examin…
Regional news portrayals of global warming and climate change
Sex Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior
Public Problem Characterization, Policy Solution Generation, and Intra‐Agenda Connectivity
While policy agenda studies have extensively examined the interplays of various venues, one under‐explored area is the internal dynamics within an agenda venue. In this study, we focus on one of the important venues—news media—and investigate the inherent connections between how a public problem is characterized and how problem solutions are generated in media agenda setting. Drawing on agenda‐setting theories, we develop a typology to theorize t…
Identifying the impact of the built environment on flood damage in Texas
Floods continue to pose the greatest threat to the property and safety of human communities among all natural hazards in the United States. This study examines the relationship between the built environment and flood impacts in Texas, which consistently sustains the most damage from flooding of any other state in the country. Specifically, we calculate property damage resulting from 423 flood events between 1997 and 2001 at the county level. We i…
Personal characteristics, local environmental conditions, and individual environmental concern
Early research shows that the level of individual environmental concern correlates with some personal characteristics, such as gender, political orientation, and beliefs and values. Many studies, however, omit important social and contextual factors that may influence individual concern. This paper adds to the extant literature by situating survey respondents within their local environment to examine both personal and local environmental influenc…
How social capital shapes citizen willingness to co‐invest in public service
Why are citizens in some communities more willing to co‐invest in public services than citizens in other communities? Citizen co‐investment has become an important policy tool for governments to finance public services, yet little research has theorized and empirically examined the impacts of community contexts on citizens' willingness to invest their personal resources in public services. As social capital is often viewed as an important determi…
Racial Voting Patterns in the South
Conflicting views have been advanced about racial voting patterns in the South. One contention is that blacks can most easily align with affluent whites rather than with middle or low income whites. A second argument maintains the opposite—that southern blacks' natural allies are more likely to be working class and poor whites. A third view is that one should expect to find shifting electoral coalitions across racial lines. The authors test these…
Is “fracking” a new dirty word? The influence of word choice on public views toward natural gas attitudes
The Affinity of Negro Pupils for Segregated Schools
The segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental efFect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of law; for the policies of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group. A sense of inferiority afFects the motivation of the child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to retard the educational and ment…
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Voting Participation in Large Southern Cities
Sex Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior
Racial Voting Patterns in the South
Conflicting views have been advanced about racial voting patterns in the South. One contention is that blacks can most easily align with affluent whites rather than with middle or low income whites. A second argument maintains the opposite—that southern blacks' natural allies are more likely to be working class and poor whites. A third view is that one should expect to find shifting electoral coalitions across racial lines. The authors test these…
Voting and Contacting
This study examines voting and contacting public officials as two forms of local political participation in the suburban community of Garland, Texas. Voting and contacting are positively, but not very strongly, related. Two variables associate significantly with voting and contacting: (1) education level, which has a stronger relationship with voting than with contacting, and (2) interest in city government, which has a stronger relationship with…
Politics and the Black Church in a Southern Community
Beginning in the late 1940s after the abolition of the allwhite Democratic primary, the Southern Black church increasingly became a focal point for newly emerging Black political activities. The significance of the Black church in politics was due to the fact that Black clergymen played crucial political middleman roles between the emerging Black electorate and interested white politicians.1 With the passage of time and the growth of Black politi…
Citizen Contacts with Local Governments
The relationship between area social well-being and the extent of citizen-initiated contacts with local governments is examined for Dallas and Houston. The findings of this study, negative linear relationships between social well-being and contacting, are compared and contrasted with those of Jones and associates (1977) who, studying Detroit, found a parabolic relationship between social well-being and contacting behavior. The needs/awareness mod…
Bureaucratic Response to Citizen Contacts
The present study examines bureaucratic response to all citizen-initiated requests for service from the Dallas city government for January-December 1975. Utilizing this expanded data base, the authors test hypotheses derived from the three basic models proposed to explain bureaucratic response to citizen requests for service: the political model, the underclass model, and the bureaucratic decision-rule model. The study finds little support for ei…
Voter Registration Drives and Black Voting in the South
The author examines a random sample of 3,000 black and white registered voters in Houston who registered during three specific time periods in 1976. Group A includes those registered as of 31 May 1976, group B those who registered during an intensive black voter registration drive in the summer of 1976 (1 June-31 August), and group C those individuals who registered after the drive but before the election in November of 1976. The actual voting re…
Does Heavy Turnout Help Democrats in Presidential Elections
There is conventional political wisdom that high voter turnout in a U.S. presidential election advantages the majority party. Because the Democratic party has been the dominant party in recent decades, this turnout advantage is often believed to accrue to Democratic presidential candidates. In an article in the June 1980 issue of the Review, James DeNardo challenged this conventional view. Indeed, he claimed that the majority party was likely to …
New Voters, Switchers, and Political Party Realignment in Texas
ECAUSE political parties play such an important stabilizing and directing role in American politics, scholars and practitioners pay close attention to the relative strengths of our two major parties. They look especially for signs which might indicate any change in party balance which could signal changes in America’s public policy agenda. Party realignments are complex phenomena. Ladd (1986) argues that the term realignment has three different m…
New Voters, Switchers, and Political Party Realignment in Texas
Who are the Japan Bashers? Evidence from national surveys, 1974-1985
Analysis of surveys of the American population during 1974—1985 displays a relatively stable, positive evaluation of Japan. Almost half (40%) of the 1985 respondents gave Japan one of the three most favorable ratings on a scale of ten. Regression analysis indicates that age, education, and family income form the best predictors of attitudes toward Japan. Those who are older, less educated and poorer hold less favorable attitudes toward Japan
A question of values
Individual vulnerability and views of the in-group and out-groups among citizens of the European community
This article seeks to test the theoretical relationship, derived from Ernest Becker's work on individual vulnerability (or mortality salience), between vulnerability/insecurity and views of the in-group and out-group. Using samples of respondents from twelve nations in the European Community, we rank the respondents on degree of vulnerability and then compare vulnerable and non vulnerable respondents on their views of their own ethnic group and i…
Comparing Canadian and American Values
This article examines portions of Seymour Martin Lipset's thesis concerning the differences in the value systems of Canadians and U.S. Americans (Lipset 1963b). (1) Although Lipset's first presentation of differences in values of Canadians and Americans is over thirty years old and maintains its fascination, interest, and theoretical significance, the thesis is strongly involved in controversy and disagreement (Bell and Tepperman 1979) as well as…
Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation
While various models have been developed to account for differences in participation levels between African-Americans and Anglos, the empirical evidence for these models is rather limited; fails to include ethnic minority groups other than African-Americans; and assumes that the models are equally effective in explaining the behavior of all individuals regardless of race or ethnicity. This paper addresses these limitations by evaluating five mode…
Swimming Upstream
In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. De…
Climate Change Vulnerability and Policy Support
Climate scientists note that the effects of climate change vary regionally. Citizen willingness to absorb the costs of adaptation and mitigation policies may correspond with these place-specific effects. Geographic information systems (GIS) analytic techniques are used to map and measure survey respondents' climate change risk at various levels of spatial resolution and precision. Spatial data are used to analyze multiple measures of climate chan…
Collective Action, Environmental Activism, and Air Quality Policy
This article attempts to respond to Ostrom’s call for a behavioral model of collective action by generalizing the collective interest model of mass political action to explain citizen policy support and personal behavioral intentions in the context of air quality policy. The collective action problems inherent in air quality policy provide a critical research setting for testing hypotheses of the collective interest model. Key elements of the col…
Can We Generalize from Student Experiments to the Real World in Political Science, Military Affairs, and International Relations
The authors conducted an experiment with a group of military officers and replicated it with a group of students at a public university in the United States. The experimental scenario dealt with a decision problem in the area of counterterrorism. The authors found that while more than one-third of students recommended doing nothing, the overwhelming majority of military officers (more than 90 percent) recommended doing something. Also, military o…
Examining the Relationship Between Physical Vulnerability and Public Perceptions of Global Climate Change in the United States
Although there is a growing body of research examining public perceptions of global climate change, little work has focused on the role of place and proximity in shaping these perceptions. This study extends previous conceptual models explaining risk perception associated with global climate change by adding a spatial dimension. Specifically, Geographic Information Systems and spatial analytical techniques are used to map and measure survey respo…
Theories of Ethnic Social Distance
Social science theories of ethnic division and antipathy are tested empirically using survey and zip code data for representative samples of whites, African Americans, and Mexican Americans in Texas. Ordered logistic regression tests estimate the effects of theoretically relevant variables on probabilities of racial and ethnic out-group social distance. Competing social science theories of ethnic and racial social distance are tested for multiple…
Collective Action and Citizen Responses to Global Warming
Issue Definition, Information Processing, and the Politics of Global Warming
Past research has proposed various macrolevel theories of issue definition and agenda setting. However, we propose a microlevel theory of issue definition rooted in how individuals process information. We theorize that people process information about policy issues through a filter that emphasizes past assessments, ideology, background, social cues, and the continuing intrusion of new information. Most of these factors lead individual issue defin…
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