Political Culture in the Urban West: Is It Really Different?

Moon, Carol; Pierce, John C.; Lovrich, Nicholas P.

doi:10.1177/0160323x0103300304

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“…Although the occupations of individuals may be considered examples of compositional effects, when they dominate a region to such an extent that they colour the attitudes and behaviour of residents within the polity-regardless of the occupation of those residents-this can be considered a contextual affect. The other source of such contextual effects is migration, either historical or contemporary (Alm et al, 2001(Alm et al, , 2004Moon et al, 2001;Brons, 2006). The arrival of distinct groups, particularly in large numbers and particularly when political institutions are in flux, has the capacity to shape the political norms within an area.…”

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‘Small Worlds’ as Predictors of General Political Attitudes

Henderson

2010

Regional & Federal Studies

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In a federal system, do citizens have varying amounts of trust and efficacy for different levels of government? Individuals might, for example, feel a greater sense of efficacy for the more proximate level. This contribution examines 40 years of Canadian Election Study (CES) data to determine whether and how citizens distinguish between levels of government to determine which level of government is deemed more important and whether one is more likely to prompt higher levels of trust and efficacy. After establishing that individuals do indeed hold varying levels of trust and efficacy for provincial and federal governments, the analysis takes advantage of innovative questions in the 1984 CES and makes clear that state and sub-state trust and efficacy exert an independent impact on general political attitudes.

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‘Small Worlds’ as Predictors of General Political Attitudes

Henderson

2010

Regional & Federal Studies

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“…Our research is focused on structural social capital, but the two components are related. Previous research has shown substantial variations among local areas in the levels of trust (Moon, Pierce, & Lovrich, ; Putnam & Feldstein, ; Rahn & Rudolph, ), and in the presence of associations (Rupasingha, Goetz, & Freshwater, ). Putnam () documents broad variations in social capital among the American states, using an index that employs both measures of community organizational life and measures of social trust (p. 291); Johnson, Goerdel, Lovrich, and Pierce () identify accountability consequences of differences in associational density and trust levels in American counties as indicators of social capital (p. 115); and Budd, Lovrich, and Pierce () show social capital links trust variations in sustainability across 40 American cities.…”

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Foreclosure Risk and Community Health: Does Social Capital Have a Protective Effect?

Daley¹,

Goerdel²,

Pierce³

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Policy Studies Journal

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This study draws upon the social determinants of health framework to model and test the extent to which a community's social capital is health protective in the face of a substantial economic shock, namely the recent foreclosure crisis. U.S. county-level data are used to analyze potential moderating effects of social capital on health given a community's foreclosure risk. We rely upon established social capital measures for U.S counties and merge them with county level foreclosure risk scores constructed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). While theorists suggest that social capital's effect on health and other outcomes may be durable over time there have been few empirical tests of this.We interact established social capital indicators measured at two points in time with foreclosure risk to predict overall self-reported health. Our results provide strong support suggesting that high levels of social capital are health protective. Communities with high levels of social capital that are facing high foreclosure risks report significantly better aggregate health outcomes than comparable communities facing the same level of foreclosure risk, but lower levels of social capital.

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“…Hence individuals are grouped in terms of their scores on variables and it is these groupings of individuals (rather than the variables themselves) which are the primary source for data analysis. Cluster analysis is increasingly being used in the analysis of political attitudes (Delhey, 1999;Moon et al, 2001;Keulder & Spilker, 2002).…”

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Can adult education change extremist attitudes?

Preston¹,

Feinstein²,

Anderson³

2005

London Review of Education

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Child Development Study) into various racist-authoritarian categories at ages 33 and 42 using cluster analysis. Following this identification we test various hypothesis concerning the relationship between adult education and attitude change. In particular, questioning whether adult education can transform attitudes amongst those with racist-authoritarian attitudes and/or whether adult education can sustain non-extremist views. Although there is evidence of a conditional association between adult education and sustaining non-extremist views we are sceptical concerning the ability of adult education to change extremist positions. We conclude that further work on the mechanisms linking education and extremist attitudes is required if we are to identify causal processes.

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Political Culture in the Urban West: Is It Really Different?

Cited by 5 publications

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‘Small Worlds’ as Predictors of General Political Attitudes

‘Small Worlds’ as Predictors of General Political Attitudes

Foreclosure Risk and Community Health: Does Social Capital Have a Protective Effect?

Can adult education change extremist attitudes?

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