Political Culture, Political System Characteristics, and Public Policies among the American States

Morgan, David R.; Watson, Sheilah S.

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“…Allen et al (2013), Feiock et al (2008), Marcouiller et al (2002), Morgan and Watson (1991), Howell-Moroney (2008) U.S. Census Bureau (1991Bureau ( , 2001 House value ($1000s) Median house value in 1990 " " Conservative voting and voting variability Mean % votes cast for conservative (Republican or US Taxpayers Party) candidates in gubernatorial and presidential elections 1998-2010 and the standard deviation of this variable Townships with consistently conservative voting patterns will be less likely to zone. Kahn (2011) Mich. Dept.…”

Section: Motivation: Development and Populationmentioning

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Factors influencing zoning ordinance adoption in rural and exurban townships

Locke

Rissman

2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Section: Motivation: Development and Populationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Factors influencing zoning ordinance adoption in rural and exurban townships

Locke

Rissman

2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…We assess fundamentalism with a scale created by Morgan and Watson (1991) that is based on the percentage of residents who are members of fundamentalist churches. This scale is available only for 1980, but Newport (1979) suggested that church aff iliations in large aggregates such as states are extremely stable.…”

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Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences

2005

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Capital punishment is the most severe punishment, yet little is known about the social conditions that lead to death sentences. Racial threat explanations imply that this sanction will be imposed more often in jurisdictions with larger minority populations, but some scholars suggest that a tradition of vigilante violence leads to increased death sentences. This study tests the combined explanatory power of both accounts by assessing statistical interactions between past lynchings and the recent percentage of African Americans after political conditions and other plausible effects are held constant. Findings from count models based on different samples, data, and estimators suggest that racial threat and lynchings combine to produce increased death sentences, but the presence of liberal political values explains the absence of death sentences. These findings both confirm and refine the political version of conflict theory because they suggest that the effects of current racial threat and past vigilantism largely directed against newly freed slaves jointly contribute to current lethal but legal reactions to racial threat.

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“…4 Second, Elazar's distinctions facilitate distinguishing economic and social conservatives (individualists and traditionalists, for Elazar), a difference that is conflated in the liberal-conservative dimension. Further, a number of studies find that Elazar's cultural distinctions hold up well against competition with alternative, more recent measures and continue to contribute usefully to predicting and explaining cross-state policy differences (Fisher & Pratt, 2006;Hanson, 1991;Kincaid, 1982;Mead, 2004;Moran & Watson, 1991). We expect that, as we move from traditionalistic through individualistic to moralistic states, our index for Elazar's cultural distinctions will produce a positive effect on state Medicaid nursing facility long-term programs' quality of care across time.…”

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Do High Rates of OSCAR Deficiencies Prompt Improved Nursing Facility Processes and Outcomes?

Klopfenstein

Lockhart

Giles-Sims

2011

Journal of Aging & Social Policy

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Recently, some researchers have argued that high state rates of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Online Survey, Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) nursing facility deficiencies indicate stringent enforcement, leaving the impression of better-quality care soon to follow; others maintain that the rank ordering of states' quality of nursing facility care remains fairly constant, resting on deep-seated state characteristics that change slowly, so that short-term improvement in poor-quality care is unlikely. The authors examine change in the process and outcome quality of states' Medicare nursing facility long-term care programs across 1999 to 2005, using linear and two-stage least squares regression. They find that (1) nationally, process quality generally falls across this period while outcome quality generally increases; (2) neither a prominent enforcement stringency index nor state culture, a relatively stable state characteristic, exerts much influence on state process and outcome quality scores over time, but (3) the relative costs and benefits for CMS compliance appear to contribute to explaining change in states' quality of resident outcomes over time; and (4) states' process quality is much less stable than outcome quality, and outcome indices distinct from OSCAR deficiency data provide more reliable and possibly more valid measures of care quality.

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Political Culture, Political System Characteristics, and Public Policies among the American States

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Factors influencing zoning ordinance adoption in rural and exurban townships

Factors influencing zoning ordinance adoption in rural and exurban townships

Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences

Do High Rates of OSCAR Deficiencies Prompt Improved Nursing Facility Processes and Outcomes?

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