David Macdonald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3717638 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Macdonald |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Macdonald |
| ASSINATURA | MACDONALD D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8820-6067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 150 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1929 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Core Political Values and Partisan Attitude Change
Core political values, which reflect abstract, prescriptive beliefs about humanity, society, and public affairs, have long been recognized as central elements in belief systems. Despite their demonstrated importance, for example, in structuring issue attitudes, evidence regarding their ability to shape partisanship is surprisingly under-examined, with limited evidence to date finding, in the United States, that partisanship structures core values…
The political consequences of public attitudes toward ‘Legal’ vs. ‘Illegal’ immigrants
Student Loan Debt and Participation in American National Elections
More than 40 million American adults have student loan debt and collectively owe approximately $1.8 trillion. Despite the societal importance of student loan debt, we know little about its consequences for electoral behavior. I address this oversight here by testing the relationship between student loan debt and participation in American national elections. I do so with pooled cross-sectional survey data from the 2016–2020 Cooperative Election St…
Party Control and American Statehouse Democracy
Why Do Some Union Members Vote Republican? The Role of Workplace Political Discussion
Labor union members are more likely to vote than their nonunionized counterparts, and when they do vote, are more likely to support the Democratic Party. However, a sizable minority of union members vote Republican. This is puzzling, given that the national Republican Party has long been hostile toward organized labor. Extant research has clearly demonstrated that union and nonunion members differ in their voting behavior, but we know little abou…
Labor Union Membership and Women’s Political Ambition
Women have long been underrepresented in American politics. This is evidenced by women being less likely to run for and hold elected office. Existing scholarship largely focuses on explaining why women are less politically ambitious than their male counterparts but pays less attention to why some women do run for office. To this end, I focus on the potential role of labor union membership. I argue that labor unions can foster political ambition a…
Trust in government and American public opinion toward foreign aid
Since the end of World War II, the US government has spent nearly $4 trillion on humanitarian, economic, and military assistance to other countries. Despite the myriad benefits of such programs, mass support has long been lacking. Here, I argue that low citizen trust in government can help us to understand why. Using cross-sectional and panel survey data from the United States, I find a positive and substantively significant relationship between …
Political Trust and American Public Support for Free Trade
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States
Fueled by decades of immigration, the United States is on a path to becoming a “majority-minority” nation, in which non-Hispanic Whites no longer represent a majority of the population. Such demographic changes have prompted a reexamination of White Americans’ racial attitudes, particularly regarding whether a politically consequential sense of racial in-group solidarity or “White identity” has emerged. Recent work shows that such a White identit…
Public attitudes toward organized labor
Objective Despite declining and historically low membership, labor unions remain important and relevant actors in American politics. Accordingly, we have learned a good deal about the economic and political consequences of labor unions and union membership. However, we know less about the dynamics, determinants, and political consequences of public attitudes toward organized labor. Methods I use a variety of survey data to (1) track public suppor…
Political Trust and Support for Immigration in the European Mass Public
Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns
Core values, which can be defined as abstract prescriptive beliefs about government and society, help ordinary citizens to reason about politics in a principled and efficacious manner. As such, core values have appeal for mass politics and representative democracy. To fulfill this role, core values should possess several characteristics. Chief among these are resistance to elite influence and trans‐situationalism, that is, the ability to guide po…
The Authoritarian Predisposition and American Public Support for Social Security
Authoritarianism, an individual-level predisposition that favors security, conformity, and certainty, has been powerfully linked with cultural conservatism and support for “strongman” politicians but weakly and inconsistently linked with public opinion toward economic issues. In examining this latter relationship, past work has tended to pose a dichotomous question, is authoritarianism associated with economic liberalism/conservatism or not? Here…
Labor Unions and White Democratic Partisanship
How Labor Unions Increase Political Knowledge
Political Trust and Support for Immigration in the American Mass Public
Immigration is one of the most salient and important issues in contemporary American politics. While a great deal is known about how cultural attitudes and economics influence public opinion toward immigration, little is known about how attitudes toward government influence support for immigration. Using cross-sectional data from the American National Election Studies (ANES), panel data from the ANES and General Social Survey, as well a Mechanica…
Immigration Attitudes and White Americans’ Responsiveness to Rising Income Inequality
Despite decades of rising inequality, there has been little observed increase in American public support for redistribution. This is puzzling because majorities of Americans profess to be aware of and opposed to high inequality. I argue that this lack of responsiveness is not due to public ignorance of, nor apathy toward, inequality but rather, in part, to negative feelings toward immigrants, a growing, politically salient, and negatively stereot…
When does inequality demobilize? New evidence from the American states
Class Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality
Objective Why, despite positive feelings toward the poor and working classes, relative to the rich and big business, has American public support for redistribution failed to appreciably increase during an era of high, and rising, income inequality? Methods I argue that this puzzling disconnect is due, in part, to a lack of general political knowledge. Using survey data from the 2012 American National Election Study, I test how political knowledge…
Trust in Government and the American Public’s Responsiveness to Rising Inequality
The United States has become increasingly unequal. Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s, yet public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans’ professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that trust in government can help to reconcile this. I combine data on state-level income inequality with survey data from the Cumulative American National Ele…
Labor Unions and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality
Objectives The United States has become increasingly unequal over the past several decades. Despite this, public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans' professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that the decline of labor unions, an organization that promotes anti‐inequality attitudes among its members, can help us to understand this. Method I use panel data f…
Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and Biopower
For seven generations, the Canadian settler state sought to take Indigenous children from their parents and home communities, to a network of residential schools, where the goal of the state and the four main Christians churches was to destroy all that was Indigenous in these children. A key purpose was to make Indigenous peoples, alongside their sovereign rights to land, language, spirituality, and governance disappear. As this system wound down…
Re-Evaluating the ScottishThing
In this paper, we make a case for identification of a thing site at Dingwall in Scotland, which has previously only been known from place-name evidence. A complex of features associated with the thing is reconstructed through reference to a mound, known in the medieval period as the Mute hill of Dingwall, which is shown to have been closely associated with a legally bounded field and church. Results are presented from a detailed local historic la…
Opiate use, treatment, and harm reduction in Afghanistan
First Nations, Residential Schools, and the Americanization of the Holocaust
The Americanization of the Holocaust has encouraged some notable activists, purportedly acting on behalf of indigenous peoples, to present European colonization as a “holocaust,” repackaging colonial history in starkly black-and-white terms. I pay particular attention to discussions in America and Canada over the genocidal implications of indigenous residential schooling. There is a twin danger involved. At one level the Holocaust is subjected to…
Political Trust and Support for Immigration in the American Mass Public
Immigration is one of the most salient and important issues in contemporary American politics. While a great deal is known about how cultural attitudes and economics influence public opinion toward immigration, little is known about how attitudes toward government influence support for immigration. Using cross-sectional data from the American National Election Studies (ANES), panel data from the ANES and General Social Survey, as well a Mechanica…
How Labor Unions Increase Political Knowledge
Trust in Government and the American Public’s Responsiveness to Rising Inequality
The United States has become increasingly unequal. Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s, yet public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans’ professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that trust in government can help to reconcile this. I combine data on state-level income inequality with survey data from the Cumulative American National Ele…
First Nations, Residential Schools, and the Americanization of the Holocaust
The Americanization of the Holocaust has encouraged some notable activists, purportedly acting on behalf of indigenous peoples, to present European colonization as a “holocaust,” repackaging colonial history in starkly black-and-white terms. I pay particular attention to discussions in America and Canada over the genocidal implications of indigenous residential schooling. There is a twin danger involved. At one level the Holocaust is subjected to…
Labor Unions and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality
Objectives The United States has become increasingly unequal over the past several decades. Despite this, public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans' professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that the decline of labor unions, an organization that promotes anti‐inequality attitudes among its members, can help us to understand this. Method I use panel data f…
Political Trust and American Public Support for Free Trade
Political Trust and Support for Immigration in the European Mass Public
Labor Unions and White Democratic Partisanship
Integrating the environmental and economic consequences of converting to organic agriculture
When does inequality demobilize? New evidence from the American states
Class Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality
Objective Why, despite positive feelings toward the poor and working classes, relative to the rich and big business, has American public support for redistribution failed to appreciably increase during an era of high, and rising, income inequality? Methods I argue that this puzzling disconnect is due, in part, to a lack of general political knowledge. Using survey data from the 2012 American National Election Study, I test how political knowledge…
The Land of the Lama
Immigration Attitudes and White Americans’ Responsiveness to Rising Income Inequality
Despite decades of rising inequality, there has been little observed increase in American public support for redistribution. This is puzzling because majorities of Americans profess to be aware of and opposed to high inequality. I argue that this lack of responsiveness is not due to public ignorance of, nor apathy toward, inequality but rather, in part, to negative feelings toward immigrants, a growing, politically salient, and negatively stereot…
Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and Biopower
For seven generations, the Canadian settler state sought to take Indigenous children from their parents and home communities, to a network of residential schools, where the goal of the state and the four main Christians churches was to destroy all that was Indigenous in these children. A key purpose was to make Indigenous peoples, alongside their sovereign rights to land, language, spirituality, and governance disappear. As this system wound down…
The Struggle to Organize
Twenty Years in Tibet
The political consequences of public attitudes toward ‘Legal’ vs. ‘Illegal’ immigrants
Trust in government and American public opinion toward foreign aid
Since the end of World War II, the US government has spent nearly $4 trillion on humanitarian, economic, and military assistance to other countries. Despite the myriad benefits of such programs, mass support has long been lacking. Here, I argue that low citizen trust in government can help us to understand why. Using cross-sectional and panel survey data from the United States, I find a positive and substantively significant relationship between …
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States
Fueled by decades of immigration, the United States is on a path to becoming a “majority-minority” nation, in which non-Hispanic Whites no longer represent a majority of the population. Such demographic changes have prompted a reexamination of White Americans’ racial attitudes, particularly regarding whether a politically consequential sense of racial in-group solidarity or “White identity” has emerged. Recent work shows that such a White identit…
Public attitudes toward organized labor
Objective Despite declining and historically low membership, labor unions remain important and relevant actors in American politics. Accordingly, we have learned a good deal about the economic and political consequences of labor unions and union membership. However, we know less about the dynamics, determinants, and political consequences of public attitudes toward organized labor. Methods I use a variety of survey data to (1) track public suppor…
The Authoritarian Predisposition and American Public Support for Social Security
Authoritarianism, an individual-level predisposition that favors security, conformity, and certainty, has been powerfully linked with cultural conservatism and support for “strongman” politicians but weakly and inconsistently linked with public opinion toward economic issues. In examining this latter relationship, past work has tended to pose a dichotomous question, is authoritarianism associated with economic liberalism/conservatism or not? Here…
The Land of the Lama
Tibetan Tales, III
Twenty Years in Tibet
Twenty Years in Tibet
Aphrodisias and Currency in the East, A. D. 259-305
Power Begins at the Cod End
Power Begins at the Cod End
The Struggle to Organize
A Further Note On Two Staters of Philip Iii From Phanagoreia
Two staters of Philip III from Phanagoreia were struck by an uncertain eastern mint and an Anatolian mint perhaps located at Abydus, according to current numismatic thought. These attributions do not effect the conclusion that the staters entered the Cimmerian Bosporus through Pontus. Almost all gold staters of Philip III were struck in eastern and Anatolian mints and coins from distant mints circulated widely in Alexander's empire
Integrating the environmental and economic consequences of converting to organic agriculture
Blooming flowers and false prophets
First Nations, Residential Schools, and the Americanization of the Holocaust
The Americanization of the Holocaust has encouraged some notable activists, purportedly acting on behalf of indigenous peoples, to present European colonization as a “holocaust,” repackaging colonial history in starkly black-and-white terms. I pay particular attention to discussions in America and Canada over the genocidal implications of indigenous residential schooling. There is a twin danger involved. At one level the Holocaust is subjected to…
Opiate use, treatment, and harm reduction in Afghanistan
Re-Evaluating the ScottishThing
In this paper, we make a case for identification of a thing site at Dingwall in Scotland, which has previously only been known from place-name evidence. A complex of features associated with the thing is reconstructed through reference to a mound, known in the medieval period as the Mute hill of Dingwall, which is shown to have been closely associated with a legally bounded field and church. Results are presented from a detailed local historic la…
Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and Biopower
For seven generations, the Canadian settler state sought to take Indigenous children from their parents and home communities, to a network of residential schools, where the goal of the state and the four main Christians churches was to destroy all that was Indigenous in these children. A key purpose was to make Indigenous peoples, alongside their sovereign rights to land, language, spirituality, and governance disappear. As this system wound down…
Labor Unions and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality
Objectives The United States has become increasingly unequal over the past several decades. Despite this, public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans' professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that the decline of labor unions, an organization that promotes anti‐inequality attitudes among its members, can help us to understand this. Method I use panel data f…
Class Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality
Objective Why, despite positive feelings toward the poor and working classes, relative to the rich and big business, has American public support for redistribution failed to appreciably increase during an era of high, and rising, income inequality? Methods I argue that this puzzling disconnect is due, in part, to a lack of general political knowledge. Using survey data from the 2012 American National Election Study, I test how political knowledge…
Trust in Government and the American Public’s Responsiveness to Rising Inequality
The United States has become increasingly unequal. Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s, yet public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans’ professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that trust in government can help to reconcile this. I combine data on state-level income inequality with survey data from the Cumulative American National Ele…
The Authoritarian Predisposition and American Public Support for Social Security
Authoritarianism, an individual-level predisposition that favors security, conformity, and certainty, has been powerfully linked with cultural conservatism and support for “strongman” politicians but weakly and inconsistently linked with public opinion toward economic issues. In examining this latter relationship, past work has tended to pose a dichotomous question, is authoritarianism associated with economic liberalism/conservatism or not? Here…
Labor Unions and White Democratic Partisanship
How Labor Unions Increase Political Knowledge
Political Trust and Support for Immigration in the American Mass Public
Immigration is one of the most salient and important issues in contemporary American politics. While a great deal is known about how cultural attitudes and economics influence public opinion toward immigration, little is known about how attitudes toward government influence support for immigration. Using cross-sectional data from the American National Election Studies (ANES), panel data from the ANES and General Social Survey, as well a Mechanica…
Immigration Attitudes and White Americans’ Responsiveness to Rising Income Inequality
Despite decades of rising inequality, there has been little observed increase in American public support for redistribution. This is puzzling because majorities of Americans profess to be aware of and opposed to high inequality. I argue that this lack of responsiveness is not due to public ignorance of, nor apathy toward, inequality but rather, in part, to negative feelings toward immigrants, a growing, politically salient, and negatively stereot…
When does inequality demobilize? New evidence from the American states
Public attitudes toward organized labor
Objective Despite declining and historically low membership, labor unions remain important and relevant actors in American politics. Accordingly, we have learned a good deal about the economic and political consequences of labor unions and union membership. However, we know less about the dynamics, determinants, and political consequences of public attitudes toward organized labor. Methods I use a variety of survey data to (1) track public suppor…
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