Early voting, direct democracy, and voter mobilization
This study aims to evaluate whether direct democracy campaign contact can stimulate peripheral voter usage of early voting options, thereby helping to equalize rates of electoral participation between core and peripheral voter groups. Using voter survey data from the 2016 US presidential election in Escambia County, Florida, the analysis shows that while core voters tend to use early voting options, peripheral voters contacted by a direct democracy campaign can be mobilized into voting absentee. This result suggests that direct democracy reforms, and the ballot measure campaigns accompanying them, can help bring about a mo...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
My sustainable city — Exploring lay people’s conception of sustainable urban design
Publication date: Available online 30 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Gustav Bösehans, Ian WalkerAbstractThe new urbanism movement has repeatedly stressed the importance of dimensions such as density, land use and passive solar design in urban sustainability. However, little is known about lay people's conception of these constructs. If the urban environment is to be designed to prioritise people, understanding how they conceive of sustainability becomes important. The present study investigated lay people's conceptions of sustainable urban design by asking them to build their own cities with the u...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Financial education and student financial literacy: A cross-country analysis using PISA 2012 data
Publication date: Available online 29 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): José Manuel Cordero, María Gil-Izquierdo, Francisco Pedraja-ChaparroAbstractThe aim of this research is to explore whether teaching basic financial concepts at schools helps to improve students’ ability to apply the knowledge and skills that they learn to real-life situations involving financial issues and decision making measured by a standardized financial literacy assessment. To do this, we exploit the rich set of comparative data about the countries participating in the PISA 2012 financial literacy module. Our empirical an...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The impact of different drinking habits on marijuana use among college-aged youths
Publication date: Available online 23 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Zefeng BaiAbstractThe present study investigates the impact of two drinking habits – moderate drinking and heavy drinking – on marijuana use among college-aged youths. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97 (NLSY97), this paper reveals that there is a positive association between both drinking habits and marijuana use in the long run, indicating that alcohol and marijuana are complements. However, in the short run, the association between marijuana and alcohol varies based on different drinking habits...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Assessment of residents’ perceptions and support toward development projects: A study of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor
Publication date: Available online 19 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Shamsa Kanwal, Abdul Hameed Pitafi, Muhammad Imran Rasheed, Adnan Pitafi, Jawad IqbalAbstractRoad infrastructure and transportation networks play a major role in development of a country’s economy and local residents. In Pakistan, such dependence has led to major investments in road construction with the mega-project China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Using social exchange theory, this study investigates residents’ attitudes toward CPEC development in Pakistan. Primary data used in this research study has been collecte...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Time use patterns among U.S. disengaged youth
This study used 2010–2016 data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to examine patterns of daily life for 1,129 disengaged youth ages 16–24. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis identified five subgroups. These were youth who focused on social activities, youth who appeared to be the primary caregivers of young children, youth engaged in religious pursuits, volunteering-focused youth, and youth who spent extensive time on court-related tasks and travel. Males, younger individuals, the unmarried, and those with fewer children were more likely to be focused on social activities than their counterparts. Females, Whites, olde...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Tourism and hospitality market structure: A theoretical discussion
Publication date: Available online 6 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Li Sheng, Wanyang HuAbstractIn this paper a standard model is used to examine the economic effect of market structure in travel destinations. We show that favorable changes in the push and pull factors are good for enhancing local hospitality business to the extent that they stimulate external tourism demand. We also find that rising competition in the hospitality industry, albeit boosting its sales, has no effect on its revenue but can impact its profitability adversely due to resulting price drops that are desirable only to incom...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Fostering immigrant settlement and housing in small cities: Voices of settlement practitioners and service providers in British Columbia, Canada
Publication date: Available online 3 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Julie L. Drolet, Carlos TeixeiraAbstractInternational migration is a feature of contemporary society. Because the impacts of international migration and immigration are experienced locally, there is a need to better understand how settlement and integration activities can be tailored to the local context. While many immigrants have settled in metropolitan areas, there is need to better understand how immigrants settle in small cities outside large urban areas. A study was undertaken in Kelowna and Kamloops, two small cities in the ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Disability and World Religions: An Introduction, Darla Y. Schumm, Michael Stoltzfus (Eds.). Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas (2016), 258 pp. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781481305211
Publication date: Available online 2 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Debra D. Andrist (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Bonding social capital and political trust: The mediating role of trust in public figures in Taiwan
This study not only assesses whether horizontal and vertical forms of BSC relate to political trust, but also analyzes how they influence political trust through trust in public figures after considering other theoretically crucial factors. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze data from a representative sample in Taiwan. The results reveal that horizontal BSC is negatively related to political trust, whereas citizens who have relatives and friends in political power have a high level of political trust. Trust in public figures mediates the association between two kinds of BSC and political confidence. This study...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Explaining the strictness of medical marijuana regulations in states
This study explains the strictness or extent of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) adopted by states from 1996 to 2013, developing hypotheses based on states’ economic conditions, political structures, user demands, criminal justice demands, and the impact of neighboring states. We develop an index score that captures state statute strictness by analyzing and coding the statutes of MMLs in each state. Our findings show (1) that factors that influence adoption of MMLs are not the same as the factors that influence the strictness of policies and (2) that the regulation of users and what they are allowed to have for medical mari...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Framing same-sex marriage in U.S. liberal and conservative newspapers from 2004 to 2016: Changes in issue attributes, organizing themes, and story tones
Publication date: Available online 26 July 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Yue Zheng, Lik Sam ChanAbstractBased on a content analysis of 326 news stories from three liberal and three conservative U.S. newspapers, this study explored how the newspapers framed the same-sex marriage issue from 2004 to 2016. “Human rights,” “access to benefits,” and “public support” were the three dominant issue attributes newspapers used to support same-sex marriage, while “protection of traditional marriage,” “public objection,” and “securing of conservative voters’ support” were the three major iss...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cordell Hull and His Legacies, Galen Spencer Hull. A.C. Publishing (2018), ISBN 978-0-9998470-4-6, 232pp., $25.00 Paperback
Publication date: Available online 27 July 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): James G. Linn (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to “Influencing factors to have an additional child by working women in Korea” [Soc. Sci. J. 55 (2018) 116–127]
Publication date: Available online 27 July 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Insu Chang, Brian H.S. Kim (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology: Adaptations, Structures, W. David Haines. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO (2017), 290 pp. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1607327189
Publication date: Available online 24 July 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Debra Rose Wilson (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
