The Relationship between Livestock Ownership and Child Stunting in Three Countries in Eastern Africa Using National Survey Data

AbstractThis article examines the roles played by rural religious groups in China's local contentious politics. More specifically, it aims to explore whether religious groups stimulate or reduce collective contention when the ruler is both authoritarian and atheist. Drawing on national survey data and comparative case studies, this article finds that collective contention is less likely to occur in villages with religious groups that simultaneously overlap with secular social organizations and local authorities, and are hence more likely to serve as credible communication channels between local states and discontented citizens. This finding highlights two important issues that are often side-lined, if not outright neglected, in the existing literature. First, the relationship between religious groups and collective contention is diverse rather than uniform. Second, this relationship is shaped not only by religious groups but also by other important players in the local political arena.

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Does Class Shape Legislators’ Approach to Inequality and Economic Policy? A Comparative View

Government and Opposition ◽

10.1017/gov.2020.27 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Alexander Hemingway

Keyword(s):

Economic Policy ◽

Income Inequality ◽

Working Class ◽

Survey Data ◽

National Survey ◽

White Collar ◽

The Us ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cross National ◽

Advanced Democracies

Abstract Do the class backgrounds of legislators shape their views and actions relating to inequality and economic policy? Building on findings about ‘white-collar government’ in the US, this article examines the relationship between legislators’ class and their attitudes and self-reported behaviour in advanced democracies, drawing on survey data from 15 countries including 73 national and subnational parliaments in Europe and Israel. I find that legislators from business backgrounds are more likely to support income inequality and small government, as well as less likely to consult with labour groups, than those from working-class and other backgrounds. These results are buttressed by analysis of an additional cross-national survey of European legislative candidates’ attitudes, which replicates key findings. Given the skewed class makeup of legislatures in advanced democracies, these findings may be relevant to our understanding of widespread economic and political inequalities that are increasingly salient in many countries.

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Exploring the relationship between social class, mental illness stigma and mental health literacy using British national survey data

Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine ◽

10.1177/1363459314554316 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 413-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Daniel Holman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Health Literacy ◽

Social Class ◽

Survey Data ◽

National Survey ◽

Mental Health Literacy ◽

Mental Illness Stigma ◽

The Relationship

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Is the Personal Always Political?

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000230 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 133-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Danny Osborne ◽

Yannick Dufresne ◽

Gregory Eady ◽

Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽

Cliff van der Linden

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

National Survey ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Political Sophistication ◽

Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

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Is a Digital Nation a Voting Nation? Using Survey Data to Examine the Relationship Between Internet Use and Voting in the United States

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3760187 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Amy Robinson ◽

Hannah Schaller ◽

Rafi M. Goldberg ◽

Edward Carlson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Survey Data ◽

Internet Use ◽

The United States ◽

The Relationship

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Audit Senior Modeling Fallibility: The Effects of Reduced Error Strain and Enhanced Error-Related Self-Efficacy on Audit Juniors' Responses to Self-Discovered Errors

Behavioral Research in Accounting ◽

10.2308/bria-52471 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 17-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Craig Emby ◽

Bin Zhao ◽

Jost Sieweke

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Direct Relationship ◽

Positive Association ◽

Accounting Firms ◽

Big 4 ◽

The Relationship ◽

Practical Implications

ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between audit seniors discussing their own experiences with committing and correcting errors (modeling fallibility), and audit juniors' thinking about errors and error communication (openly discussing their own self-discovered errors). The paper investigates the direct relationship between senior modeling fallibility and juniors' responses, and whether the relationship is mediated through error strain and error-related self-efficacy. Survey data from 266 audit juniors from two Big 4 Canadian accounting firms showed a direct positive association between audit senior modeling fallibility and audit juniors' thinking about errors, and error communication. This relationship is positively mediated through error-related self-efficacy. We also found that the relationship is mediated by error strain. However, although audit senior modeling fallibility was associated with reduced error strain, error strain was positively related to both thinking about errors and error communication, contrary to our hypothesis. The paper discusses the theoretical and practical implications of these results.

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Customer-Oriented Constructive Deviance as a Reaction to Organizational Injustice Toward Customers

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly ◽

10.1177/19389655211012327 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 193896552110123

Author(s):

Taeshik Gong ◽

Pengchang Sun ◽

Min Jung Kang

Keyword(s):

Customer Satisfaction ◽

Service Quality ◽

Servant Leadership ◽

Survey Data ◽

Third Party ◽

Service Climate ◽

Perceived Service Quality ◽

Hotel Managers ◽

The Relationship ◽

Organizational Injustice

To date, research on the deontic model and third-party reactions to injustice has focused primarily on individuals’ tendency to punish the transgressor. In this study, we seek to extend the extant research by arguing that punishment may not be the only deontic reaction and that third-party observers of injustice should engage in activities that help the victim. More specifically, we explore employee’s customer-oriented constructive deviance as a reaction to organizational injustice toward customers. We also investigate how this deviance influences customer satisfaction. In addition, we explore service climate, driven by servant leadership as a moderator on the relationship between employees’ perceptions of organizational unfairness and customer-oriented constructive deviance. The study collected three-level survey data from 95 hotel managers, 396 employees, and 1,848 customers. We find that servant leadership increases service climate, which in turn strengthens the relationship between organizational injustice toward customers and customer-oriented constructive deviance. The findings also reveal that customer-oriented constructive deviance increases perceived service quality, leading to customer satisfaction. Our study significantly contributes to the emerging theory concerning customer-oriented constructive deviance by explaining the antecedents, consequences, and moderators. The study also helps managers deal with customer-oriented constructive deviance in the workplace.

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The dangers of blind trust: Examining the interplay among social media news use, misinformation identification, and news trust on conspiracy beliefs

Public Understanding of Science ◽

10.1177/0963662521998025 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 096366252199802

Author(s):

Xizhu Xiao ◽

Porismita Borah ◽

Yan Su

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

National Survey ◽

Conspiracy Theories ◽

News Consumption ◽

Conspiracy Beliefs ◽

Moderation Model ◽

The Relationship ◽

Significant Moderator ◽

News Use

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation has been circulating on social media and multiple conspiracy theories have since become quite popular. We conducted a U.S. national survey for three main purposes. First, we aim to examine the association between social media news consumption and conspiracy beliefs specific to COVID-19 and general conspiracy beliefs. Second, we investigate the influence of an important moderator, social media news trust, that has been overlooked in prior studies. Third, we further propose a moderated moderation model by including misinformation identification. Our findings show that social media news use was associated with higher conspiracy beliefs, and trust in social media news was found to be a significant moderator of the relationship between social media news use and conspiracy beliefs. Moreover, our findings show that misinformation identification moderated the relationship between social media news use and trust. Implications are discussed.

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Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men’s Sex with Women

Men and Masculinities ◽

10.1177/1097184x20980789 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1097184X2098078

Author(s):

Max Stick ◽

Tina Fetner

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Survey Data ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Sexual Pleasure ◽

The Self ◽

Oral Sex ◽

Representative Survey ◽

Sociological Literature ◽

Feminist Identification ◽

The Relationship

Men’s identification with and support for feminism has attracted the interest of masculinity scholars. This study explores an under-researched dimension of this phenomenon, investigating the relationship between feminist identification and sexual behavior. In heterosexual encounters, do feminist men report having sex more recently than those who do not call themselves feminists? During sexual encounters, do feminist men behave differently than non-feminists? In particular, do feminist men organize their sexual behavior in a way that prioritizes their partners’ sexual pleasure to a greater extent than non-feminists? Using representative survey data of Canadian adults, we examine the self-reported sexual behavior of heterosexual Canadian men. We find that self-identifying feminist men report having sex more recently and are more likely to report engaging in breast stimulation and performing oral sex on their partners than non-feminists. We discuss the implications of these findings on the sociological literature on gender and sexuality.

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