Willingness to support environmental actions and policies: A comparative study
Publication date: Available online 31 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Erika Allen Wolters, Donna L. Lybecker, Frances Fahy, Monica L. HubbardAbstractThe urgency of climate change necessitates a transition to more sustainable practices and policies. Individuals have a significant role in reducing carbon emissions by modifying their personal behavior and/or supporting environmental policies. This research note reports the results of two surveys conducted in the Republic of Ireland (ROI)/Northern Ireland (NI) and in the U.S. (specifically in Oregon) that examined willingness to engage in sustainable lifes...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Satires, narratives and journalistic divides: Discourses on free speech in Western and Islamic news media
This study investigates how Western news media (The New York Times and BBC News) and Islamic news media (Al-Jazeera English and Al-Arabiya English) frame issues about freedom of expression and anti-Islamic sentiments, respectively, in the aftermath of the January 7, 2015, attacks on France’s weekly satirical newsmagazine, Charlie Hebdo. Results show a deep divide: that the Western news media, on the one hand, endorsed Charlie Hebdo’s right to offend religious sensitivities and lauded its role to protect the Western value of free speech; and that the Islamic news media, on the other, viewed the entire Western discourses...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Education prioritization and language spread
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Brendan Apfeld, Amy H. LiuAbstractGiven the importance of language for state building, many governments undertake language planning efforts to ensure their citizens can speak an – if not, the – official language. Yet the mere act of designating a language as official is not sufficient for the language to be widely spoken across the population. In this paper we ask, what explains official language spread? We argue whether citizens can speak an official language – either as a first or second language – depends on how much the g...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Jacob Torfing. Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC (2016). 353 pp., $34.93 paperback. ISBN 978-1-62616-360-7.
Publication date: Available online 25 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): William A. Wilson (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Field Researcher’s Handbook: A Guide to the Art and Science of Professional Fieldwork, David J. Danelo. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC (2017), $16.31 paperback. ISBN 9781626164451
Publication date: Available online 23 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Aparajita Banerjee (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Understanding the intention to use biosecurity management strategies on-farm: A study of Vietnamese farmers in Australia
In this study, we applied the Protection Motivation Theory to identify factors influencing farmer intention to undertake biosecurity management strategies. A survey was carried out between 2015 and 2016 across 101 Vietnamese farmers in three locations in Australia: the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Western Australia. Following data analysis using factor analysis and stepwise regressions, the results showed that farmer self-efficacy of on-farm risk management strategies, available incentives, and belief in biosecurity threats associated, positively, with the intention to adopt biosecurity risk management strategi...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A distinction with a difference: The influence of social concerns and racial prejudice on support for amnesty
Publication date: Available online 23 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Hovannes Abramyan, Gerard AlexanderAbstractIn recent years, strong public opposition to amnesty has prevented the passage of any new immigration laws that include a “pathway to citizenship” for the millions of undocumented immigrants who reside in the United States. Much scholarship on the origins of white opposition to immigration has focused on ethnocentrism. However, it has also tended to conflate racial prejudice with potentially non-racial social concerns – even though the latter could, in theory, be ameliorated through po...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
I green, you green, we all green: Testing the extended environmental theory of planned behavior among the university students of Pakistan
This study aims to extend and validate the environmental theory of planned behavior by incorporating the cognitive-perceptual beliefs about the outcome of ecological actions. We collected the data via a self-administered questionnaire from 285 systematically selected urban university students of Pakistan. The study employs structural equation modeling (SEM) with maximum likelihood method (MLE). Extended environmental theory of planned behavior explained a considerable amount of variance in green purchase intentions. Results revealed that the perceived seriousness of environmental problems and independent self-construal wer...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Complaints of police misconduct: Examining the timeliness and outcomes of internal affairs investigations
This study examined how characteristics of patrol officers and complaint cases influenced the timeliness of completing police misconduct investigations. Further, it analyzed how the timeliness of the investigation influenced the disposition and discipline of complaint investigations while controlling for relevant variables. Data were collected from a Midwestern municipal police agency for all formal complaints filed against patrol officers from 2006 to 2017. The analyses demonstrated that the nature of the complaint and number of police officers present on scene were two predictors of the timeliness of complaint investigat...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Good People, Bad Managers: How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions, By Samuel A. Culbert; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. 188 pp. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780190652395.
Publication date: Available online 23 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Robert E. Parker (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cathy O’Neil. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Crown Publishers, New York (2016). 259 pp., ISBN: 9780553418811.
Publication date: Available online 23 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Zaki Eusufzai (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Money and rhetoric: Energy sector dynamics in U.S. Senate committee
Publication date: Available online 22 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Iliyan R. Iliev, Patrick T. BrandtAbstractThe sequencing of the relationship between campaign contributions and legislative rhetoric is categorized by competing theories as being driven by lags, leads, and contemporaneous effects. We study the committee level dynamics between energy sector donations and legislative rhetoric in the U.S. Senate. Conditioning on party and Senate class, we find evidence for complex interactions that are characterized by a combination of various temporal responses. Individual dynamics — electoral vulner...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When justice answers to the president: reexamining the effect of cabinet partisanship on human rights in presidential democracies
Publication date: Available online 20 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Joshua HolzerAbstractRecent research suggests that the administrations of presidents with diverse cabinets are less likely (and less able) to violate human rights. I posit that a more clear image of how (and where) repression occurs can be obtained by looking at the cabinet portfolios that have the greatest capacity to repress, such as the ministry of justice (which typically oversees a state’s justice system and prison apparatus). In this research note, I reexamine the relationship between cabinet partisanship and government respe...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: June 2019Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 56, Issue 2Author(s): (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Experiences of upward social comparison in entertainment contexts: Emotions, state self-esteem, and enjoyment
This study examines the self- and affect-related outcomes associated with upward social comparisons to entertainment characters. Participants (N = 218) chose one entertainment television program to view from a selection of eight available and reported their emotional responses, state self-esteem, and enjoyment post-viewing. Feelings of envy and jealousy, associated with upward contrastive social comparisons, were related to decreased state self-esteem post viewing. Alternatively, feelings of hope and inspiration, associated with upward assimilative social comparisons, were related to increased enjoyment and appreciatio...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
