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Evaluating Evidentiary Standards in the Realm of Citizen Policy Evaluation. 评价公民政策评价领域的证据标准。

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-07 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.70128

Florian Justwan, Bert Baumgaertner, Markie McBrayer, Jacob Bindley, Alexa Benitez, Kira Haile, Bergen Kludt-Painter

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Panethnic fate unlinked: Who finds the term "Chinese virus" acceptable? 泛民族命运不相关：谁认为“中国病毒”一词可以接受？

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13496

Duy Trinh, Milkie Vu

{"title":"Panethnic fate unlinked: Who finds the term \"Chinese virus\" acceptable?","authors":"Duy Trinh, Milkie Vu","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13496","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ssqu.13496","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: We explain why some immigrants tolerate or even support discrimination against members of their own panethnic groups. We propose that such attitudes are shaped by an individual's acculturation to both their origin and host cultures. Specifically, acculturation affects susceptibility to discrimination faced by panethnic in-groups and moderates beliefs in panethnic-linked fate and solidarity.Methods: We conducted an original survey of Vietnamese immigrants in the United States during a surge in anti-Chinese discrimination. The survey assessed perceptions of the discriminatory term \"Chinese virus,\" focusing on variations in cultural identity and language use as dimensions of acculturation.Results: Respondents with stronger Vietnamese and weaker American acculturation in internal dimensions, such as cultural identity, were more likely to reject the term. Conversely, higher Vietnamese acculturation in external dimensions, such as language use, correlated with greater tolerance of the term. Meanwhile, experiencing discrimination had no significant effect. The findings are robust to alternate model specifications and controls for demographics, nativity, socioeconomic status, partisanship, social support, and negative experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic.Conclusion: Our findings highlight the complex ways in which acculturation shapes immigrant attitudes toward ethnically charged discrimination, with important implications for understanding panethnic solidarity and responses to prejudice.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"106 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12811031/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145999332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An advanced learning approach for detecting sarcasm in social media posts: Theory and solutions 检测社交媒体帖子中讽刺内容的高级学习方法：理论与解决方案

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13442

Pradeep Kumar Roy

{"title":"An advanced learning approach for detecting sarcasm in social media posts: Theory and solutions","authors":"Pradeep Kumar Roy","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13442","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveUsers of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter can view and share their daily life events through text, photographs, or videos. These platforms receive many sarcastic posts daily because there were fewer limits on what could be posted. The presence of multiple languages and media types in a single post makes it harder to identify sarcastic messages on the current platform than on posts written solely in English.MethodsThis study provides both the theory and solutions about sarcastic post detection on social platforms. Hindi–English code‐mixed data were used to train and test the automated models for sarcasm detection. The models in this study were constructed using traditional machine learning, deep neural networks, LSTM (long short‐term memory), CNN (convolutional neural network), and the combinations of BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) with LSTM.ResultsThe experimental results confirm that in the Hindi–English code‐mixed data set, the CNN, LSTM, and BERT‐LSTM ensemble perform best for sarcasm detection. The proposed model achieved an accuracy of 96.29 percent and outperformed by 2.29 percent compared to the existing models.ConclusionThe performance of the proposed system strengthens the code‐mixed sarcastic post detection on social platforms. The model will help filter not only English but also Hindi‐English code‐mixed sarcastic posts on social platforms.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Not ready to make nice: Congressional candidates’ emotional appeals on Twitter 还没准备好友好相处：国会候选人在推特上的情感诉求

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13439

Annelise Russell, Heather K. Evans, Bryan Gervais

{"title":"Not ready to make nice: Congressional candidates’ emotional appeals on Twitter","authors":"Annelise Russell, Heather K. Evans, Bryan Gervais","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13439","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveCongressional candidates use digital platforms to bolster and define their political reputation, and political stalemates over inflation, reproductive rights, and the lasting impact of Trump politics are fueling candidates’ emotionally charged rhetoric on Twitter, especially for women. Against the backdrop of President Donald Trump's presidency and the #MeToo movement, previous research has shown that women running for Congress are leading with angry rhetoric on Twitter. In this article, we ask whether anger is a persistent feature of women's digital appeals on Twitter over time.MethodUsing a data set of tweets by candidates for the U.S. House from 2016 to 2022, we highlight the escalating anger in the emotional appeals candidates make on Twitter and the resiliency of angry rhetoric as a modern feature of political Twitter.ResultsWe find that women, most notably Democratic candidates, are more likely to convey angry emotions on Twitter, not only matching male colleagues but defying gendered social stereotypes to turn frustration into a valuable political asset. Across the four last congressional elections, women have averaged more angry words in their digital appeals, with that anger as a consistent facet of how women engage online. Women are leaning into angry emotional appeals and adopting a negative appeal in their digital engagement that highlights their policy and political frustrations for voters.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Attitudes toward abortion legality and abortion regulation: Insights from a nationally representative study 对堕胎合法性和堕胎监管的态度：一项全国代表性研究的启示

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13443

Kristen N. Jozkowski, Brandon L. Crawford, Amelia Hawbaker, Erik Parker, Lilian Golzarri Arroyo, Ronna C. Turner

{"title":"Attitudes toward abortion legality and abortion regulation: Insights from a nationally representative study","authors":"Kristen N. Jozkowski, Brandon L. Crawford, Amelia Hawbaker, Erik Parker, Lilian Golzarri Arroyo, Ronna C. Turner","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13443","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveNational public opinion polls and surveys use different questions from one another to assess people's abortion attitudes. We included commonly asked abortion attitude items on a single survey to examine people's attitudes toward abortion legality and abortion restriction to create profiles of people which we then compared across state groups. Concurrently assessing attitudes toward both abortion legality and restrictions is important given the changing abortion legislative climate in the United States.MethodWe administered an online survey to U.S. adults (n = 919) via Ipsos probability panel and used latent class analysis to identify classes of participants. Then, we used multinominal logistic regression to make state‐level comparisons.ResultsWe identified three classes: (1) 35.0 percent—abortion should be illegal/more restricted, (2) 35.1 percent—abortion should be legal/laws should reflect the status quo, and (3) 29.9 percent—abortion should be legal/more available. Trigger‐law states comprise the largest proportion of people who think abortion should be illegal/more restricted, whereas states without trigger laws comprise similar proportions of people from all three classes.ConclusionConcurrently measuring whether people believe abortion should be legal and the extent it should be restricted can provide a more comprehensive understanding of people's attitudes and demonstrates important state‐level nuances in attitudes.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Domains of baseless belief and the characteristics of believers 无端信仰的领域和信徒的特征

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13448

Douglas D. Roscoe, Amy M. Shapiro, Brian Ayotte

{"title":"Domains of baseless belief and the characteristics of believers","authors":"Douglas D. Roscoe, Amy M. Shapiro, Brian Ayotte","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13448","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveAn extensive literature examines the prevalence of conspiracy theories and the factors that determine why some people believe them. Conspiracy theories are only one example of baseless beliefs, which we define as beliefs that are not epistemically warranted by the available evidence. The goals of this research were to determine if there are discrete domains of baseless beliefs and to identify the psychological and cognitive factors most closely associated with each type.MethodsWe surveyed 435 U.S. adults about their baseless beliefs and measured an extensive set of cognitive, epistemological, and personal characteristics.ResultsFour distinct domains of baseless belief were discovered, which we label conservative controversies, classic coverups, magical thoughts, and pseudoscience. The data suggest the confidence people have in these beliefs differs across domains and reveal clear differences in the cognitive, epistemological, and personality factors predicting belief in each domain.ConclusionBaseless beliefs encompass a number of distinct domains, and the psychological dynamics underlying belief acquisition vary across these domains. This finding suggests caution in generalizing from studies examining only one domain. The prominent role of conservatism documented in the literature on conspiracy theories, for example, is weaker or not present at all in other domains.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13441

Susan M. Sterett

{"title":"Climate‐related disasters and transparency: Records and the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency","authors":"Susan M. Sterett","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13441","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveMany governments aim for transparency for accountability. Transparency and its processes contribute to governing climate. The transparency agenda focuses on sharing records to inform the public. In the United States, accessible records also add to decision‐making processes since records are useful to contest decisions. Few people put together the two kinds of transparency, sharing and challenging. Analyzing both is critical as calls for acting on climate‐related disasters grow.MethodIn the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shares records. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is one route to access FEMA's records. To assess transparency, I coded FEMA's 2019 FOIA log for requester and record requested. Years of damaging, notable disasters preceded 2019, but 2019 precedes pandemic disruptions.ResultRequesters can make requests likely to be useful instrumentally, concerning assistance and insurance. Journalists and scholars request records useful to conceptualizing governing disaster to include both individual political officials and aggregate bureaucratic policy. Instrumental requests dominate, as they do for other agencies.ConclusionThis article answers the call in recent studies of transparency, policy, and of disaster governance to track how policies embed power. Assessing record requests contributes to understanding the accountability in freedom of information.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial and statistical predictors of voter purge rates in Michigan 密歇根州选民清除率的空间和统计预测因素

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13447

Richard C. Sadler, Thomas W. Wojciechowski, Eileen Hayes

{"title":"Spatial and statistical predictors of voter purge rates in Michigan","authors":"Richard C. Sadler, Thomas W. Wojciechowski, Eileen Hayes","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13447","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveVoter purges can protect election integrity by ensuring deceased or moved individuals are removed from election rolls. But they have been used to diminish voting power of marginalized groups, often by anti‐majoritarian forces seeking to undemocratically retain power. Little research has examined “who gets purged?” at the state level, especially with respect to local‐level differences.MethodsWe leverage Michigan's voter purge database from 2014 to 2018. Records are geocoded to their exact address, and a range of spatial correlates are identified to answer the above question. We then used generalized structural equation modeling to incorporate patterns of mobility and mortality.ResultsInitial results showed that more Democratic leaning areas, denser/more urban areas, and areas with more Black residents had higher purge rates. Notably, while these mediation effects were significant, racial composition and median income (i.e. more black and poorer communities) remained a significant factor in voter purge rates. These results suggest a potentially troublesome underlying element in Michigan's pattern of voter purges. We suggest this is an important first step in future research in other states and with subsequent databases, which can help strengthen the case that purges may be being used to uphold discriminatory and anti‐majoritarian goals.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142196193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Explaining state efforts to create Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) agreements 解释各州为达成最高日负荷总量 (TMDL) 协议所做的努力

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13444

Martin K. Mayer, John C. Morris, Madeleine W. McNamara, Xiaodan Zhang

{"title":"Explaining state efforts to create Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) agreements","authors":"Martin K. Mayer, John C. Morris, Madeleine W. McNamara, Xiaodan Zhang","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13444","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectivesWith the rejuvenated emphasis on nonpoint pollution under the Water Quality Act (WQA) of 1987, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began to face an onslaught of lawsuits designed to pressure the EPA to enforce the requirements of Section 319 of the WQA to address nonpoint pollution. Known as Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) agreements, the purpose of these plans was to limit the amount of polluted runoff reaching a state's waterways. While some states took a proactive stance on these plans, other states resisted the implementation of Section 319. This article seeks to understand state choices in the development and implementation of TMDL agreements.MethodsUtilizing a data set spanning state‐level data from 2000 to 2020, we test a novel cross‐sectional time series model employing the number agreements entered into by a state as the dependent variable.ResultsWe find that both political and need explanations are generally supported, while policy need explanations are somewhat more promising.ConclusionsTaken together, the models offer several insights into state choices around TMDL creation. The political model is the weakest, suggesting that TMDLs are not overtly political. Policy needs seem to play a more critical role in the preponderance of TMDL agreements than partisan politics.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142196194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Does government response to natural disasters explain violence? The case of the Sendero Luminoso and conflict in Peru 政府应对自然灾害能否解释暴力？秘鲁光辉道路与冲突案例

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13438

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Elise Pizzi, Carly Millerd, Jeongho Choi

{"title":"Does government response to natural disasters explain violence? The case of the Sendero Luminoso and conflict in Peru","authors":"Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Elise Pizzi, Carly Millerd, Jeongho Choi","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13438","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveWe consider how the Peruvian government's responses to natural disaster events shaped political violence patterns from 1989 to 2020.MethodsWe gather data on government disaster response and compare the effect of positive disaster responses, such as reconstruction and regulation of domestic/international aid, and negative disaster responses, such as neglect or placing restrictions on movement near the affected areas, on violent conflict. To address the endogeneity between armed conflict and disaster responses, we estimate a structural equation model where we allow armed conflicts and disaster responses to be fully endogenous.ResultsUsing a structural equation model at the province‐year level, we show that negative disaster responses increase the risks for political violence, while positive disaster responses do not affect the risks for armed conflict. Armed conflict in turn makes negative policy responses to disasters more likely but has no effect on positive disaster responses.ConclusionsThe results suggest that poor government response to natural disasters can foster grievances and aid rebel recruitment, increasing the risks for armed conflicts.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142196195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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