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- By Kumar Alagappan, Janet G. Alteveer, Kim Askew, Paul S. Auerbach, Katherine Bakes, Kip Benko, Paul D. Biddinger, Victoria Brazil, Anthony FT Brown, Andrew K. Chang, Alice Chiao, Wendy C. Coates, Jamie Collings, Gilbert Abou Dagher, Jonathan E. Davis, Peter DeBlieux, Alessandro Dellai, Emily Doelger, Pamela L. Dyne, Gino Farina, Robert Galli, Gus M. Garmel, Daniel Garza, Laleh Gharahbaghian, Gregory H. Gilbert, Michael A. Gisondi, Steven Go, Jeffrey M. Goodloe, Swaminatha V. Gurudevan, Micelle J. Haydel, Stephen R. Hayden, Corey R. Heitz, Gregory W. Hendey, Mel Herbert, Cherri Hobgood, Michelle Huston, Loretta Jackson-Williams, Anja K. Jaehne, Mary Beth Johnson, H. Brendan Kelleher, Peter G Kumasaka, Melissa J. Lamberson, Mary Lanctot-Herbert, Erik Laurin, Brian Lin, Michelle Lin, Douglas Lowery-North, Sharon E. Mace, S. V. Mahadevan, Thomas M. Mailhot, Diku Mandavia, David E. Manthey, Jorge A. Martinez, Amal Mattu, Lynne McCullough, Steve McLaughlin, Timothy Meyers, Gregory J. Moran, Randall T. Myers, Christopher R.H. Newton, Flavia Nobay, Robert L. Norris, Catherine Oliver, Jennifer A. Oman, Rita Oregon, Phillips Perera, Susan B. Promes, Emanuel P. Rivers, John S. Rose, Carolyn J. Sachs, Jairo I. Santanilla, Rawle A. Seupaul, Fred A. Severyn, Ghazala Q. Sharieff, Lee W. Shockley, Stefanie Simmons, Barry C. Simon, Shannon Sovndal, George Sternbach, Matthew Strehlow, Eustacia (Jo) Su, Stuart P. Swadron, Jeffrey A. Tabas, Sophie Terp, R. Jason Thurman, David A. Wald, Sarah R. Williams, Teresa S. Wu, Ken Zafren
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Adding an Integrated Library Component to an Undergraduate Research Methods Course
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As undergraduate students increasingly rely on the Internet as their primary method for gathering sources, they often overlook the rich and varied resources available to them in library collections. Furthermore, students often lack the sophistication to effectively seek out and use information, an ability generally referred to as information literacy. Political scientists and librarians at one institution sought to address the gap in student information literacy skills by creating and implementing a semester-long library lab component integrated into the required research methods course within the political science department. This article presents the steps taken to implement the lab component, including the student learning outcomes we sought to address. We also focus on the measures we used to assess the impact of the lab component. Students who participated in the lab component demonstrate markedly improved information literacy skills compared to those who did not.
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- By Rose Teteki Abbey, K. C. Abraham, David Tuesday Adamo, LeRoy H. Aden, Efrain Agosto, Victor Aguilan, Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, Charanjit Kaur AjitSingh, Dorothy B E A Akoto, Giuseppe Alberigo, Daniel E. Albrecht, Ruth Albrecht, Daniel O. Aleshire, Urs Altermatt, Anand Amaladass, Michael Amaladoss, James N. Amanze, Lesley G. Anderson, Thomas C. Anderson, Victor Anderson, Hope S. Antone, María Pilar Aquino, Paula Arai, Victorio Araya Guillén, S. Wesley Ariarajah, Ellen T. Armour, Brett Gregory Armstrong, Atsuhiro Asano, Naim Stifan Ateek, Mahmoud Ayoub, John Alembillah Azumah, Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Irena Backus, J. Wayne Baker, Mieke Bal, Lewis V. Baldwin, William Barbieri, António Barbosa da Silva, David Basinger, Bolaji Olukemi Bateye, Oswald Bayer, Daniel H. Bays, Rosalie Beck, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Guy-Thomas Bedouelle, Chorbishop Seely Beggiani, Wolfgang Behringer, Christopher M. Bellitto, Byard Bennett, Harold V. Bennett, Teresa Berger, Miguel A. Bernad, Henley Bernard, Alan E. Bernstein, Jon L. Berquist, Johannes Beutler, Ana María Bidegain, Matthew P. Binkewicz, Jennifer Bird, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Dmytro Bondarenko, Paulo Bonfatti, Riet en Pim Bons-Storm, Jessica A. Boon, Marcus J. Borg, Mark Bosco, Peter C. Bouteneff, François Bovon, William D. Bowman, Paul S. Boyer, David Brakke, Richard E. Brantley, Marcus Braybrooke, Ian Breward, Ênio José da Costa Brito, Jewel Spears Brooker, Johannes Brosseder, Nicholas Canfield Read Brown, Robert F. Brown, Pamela K. Brubaker, Walter Brueggemann, Bishop Colin O. Buchanan, Stanley M. Burgess, Amy Nelson Burnett, J. Patout Burns, David B. Burrell, David Buttrick, James P. Byrd, Lavinia Byrne, Gerado Caetano, Marcos Caldas, Alkiviadis Calivas, William J. Callahan, Salvatore Calomino, Euan K. Cameron, William S. Campbell, Marcelo Ayres Camurça, Daniel F. Caner, Paul E. Capetz, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Patrick W. Carey, Barbara Carvill, Hal Cauthron, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Mark D. Chapman, James H. Charlesworth, Kenneth R. Chase, Chen Zemin, Luciano Chianeque, Philip Chia Phin Yin, Francisca H. Chimhanda, Daniel Chiquete, John T. Chirban, Soobin Choi, Robert Choquette, Mita Choudhury, Gerald Christianson, John Chryssavgis, Sejong Chun, Esther Chung-Kim, Charles M. A. Clark, Elizabeth A. Clark, Sathianathan Clarke, Fred Cloud, John B. Cobb, W. Owen Cole, John A Coleman, John J. Collins, Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Paul K. Conkin, Beth A. Conklin, Sean Connolly, Demetrios J. Constantelos, Michael A. Conway, Paula M. Cooey, Austin Cooper, Michael L. Cooper-White, Pamela Cooper-White, L. William Countryman, Sérgio Coutinho, Pamela Couture, Shannon Craigo-Snell, James L. Crenshaw, David Crowner, Humberto Horacio Cucchetti, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Elizabeth Mason Currier, Emmanuel Cutrone, Mary L. Daniel, David D. Daniels, Robert Darden, Rolf Darge, Isaiah Dau, Jeffry C. Davis, Jane Dawson, Valentin Dedji, John W. de Gruchy, Paul DeHart, Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, Miguel A. De La Torre, George E. Demacopoulos, Thomas de Mayo, Leah DeVun, Beatriz de Vasconcellos Dias, Dennis C. Dickerson, John M. Dillon, Luis Miguel Donatello, Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev, Susanna Drake, Jonathan A. Draper, N. Dreher Martin, Otto Dreydoppel, Angelyn Dries, A. J. Droge, Francis X. D'Sa, Marilyn Dunn, Nicole Wilkinson Duran, Rifaat Ebied, Mark J. Edwards, William H. Edwards, Leonard H. Ehrlich, Nancy L. Eiesland, Martin Elbel, J. Harold Ellens, Stephen Ellingson, Marvin M. Ellison, Robert Ellsberg, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Eldon Jay Epp, Peter C. Erb, Tassilo Erhardt, Maria Erling, Noel Leo Erskine, Gillian R. Evans, Virginia Fabella, Michael A. Fahey, Edward Farley, Margaret A. Farley, Wendy Farley, Robert Fastiggi, Seena Fazel, Duncan S. Ferguson, Helwar Figueroa, Paul Corby Finney, Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald, Thomas E. FitzGerald, John R. Fitzmier, Marie Therese Flanagan, Sabina Flanagan, Claude Flipo, Ronald B. Flowers, Carole Fontaine, David Ford, Mary Ford, Stephanie A. Ford, Jim Forest, William Franke, Robert M. Franklin, Ruth Franzén, Edward H. Friedman, Samuel Frouisou, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Jojo M. Fung, Inger Furseth, Richard R. Gaillardetz, Brandon Gallaher, China Galland, Mark Galli, Ismael García, Tharscisse Gatwa, Jean-Marie Gaudeul, Luis María Gavilanes del Castillo, Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Volney P. Gay, Metropolitan Athanasios Geevargis, Kondothra M. George, Mary Gerhart, Simon Gikandi, Maurice Gilbert, Michael J. Gillgannon, Verónica Giménez Beliveau, Terryl Givens, Beth Glazier-McDonald, Philip Gleason, Menghun Goh, Brian Golding, Bishop Hilario M. Gomez, Michelle A. Gonzalez, Donald K. Gorrell, Roy Gottfried, Tamara Grdzelidze, Joel B. Green, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Cristina Grenholm, Herbert Griffiths, Eric W. Gritsch, Erich S. Gruen, Christoffer H. Grundmann, Paul H. Gundani, Jon P. Gunnemann, Petre Guran, Vidar L. Haanes, Jeremiah M. Hackett, Getatchew Haile, Douglas John Hall, Nicholas Hammond, Daphne Hampson, Jehu J. Hanciles, Barry Hankins, Jennifer Haraguchi, Stanley S. Harakas, Anthony John Harding, Conrad L. Harkins, J. William Harmless, Marjory Harper, Amir Harrak, Joel F. Harrington, Mark W. Harris, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Van A. Harvey, R. Chris Hassel, Jione Havea, Daniel Hawk, Diana L. Hayes, Leslie Hayes, Priscilla Hayner, S. Mark Heim, Simo Heininen, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Eila Helander, David Hempton, Scott H. Hendrix, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Gina Hens-Piazza, Carter Heyward, Nicholas J. Higham, David Hilliard, Norman A. Hjelm, Peter C. Hodgson, Arthur Holder, M. Jan Holton, Dwight N. Hopkins, Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Po-Ho Huang, James Hudnut-Beumler, Jennifer S. Hughes, Leonard M. Hummel, Mary E. Hunt, Laennec Hurbon, Mark Hutchinson, Susan E. Hylen, Mary Beth Ingham, H. Larry Ingle, Dale T. Irvin, Jon Isaak, Paul John Isaak, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Hans Raun Iversen, Margaret C. Jacob, Arthur James, Maria Jansdotter-Samuelsson, David Jasper, Werner G. Jeanrond, Renée Jeffery, David Lyle Jeffrey, Theodore W. Jennings, David H. Jensen, Robin Margaret Jensen, David Jobling, Dale A. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Maxwell E. Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Mark D. Johnston, F. Stanley Jones, James William Jones, John R. Jones, Alissa Jones Nelson, Inge Jonsson, Jan Joosten, Elizabeth Judd, Mulambya Peggy Kabonde, Robert Kaggwa, Sylvester Kahakwa, Isaac Kalimi, Ogbu U. Kalu, Eunice Kamaara, Wayne C. Kannaday, Musimbi Kanyoro, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Frank Kaufmann, Léon Nguapitshi Kayongo, Richard Kearney, Alice A. Keefe, Ralph Keen, Catherine Keller, Anthony J. Kelly, Karen Kennelly, Kathi Lynn Kern, Fergus Kerr, Edward Kessler, George Kilcourse, Heup Young Kim, Kim Sung-Hae, Kim Yong-Bock, Kim Yung Suk, Richard King, Thomas M. King, Robert M. Kingdon, Ross Kinsler, Hans G. Kippenberg, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Clifton Kirkpatrick, Leonid Kishkovsky, Nadieszda Kizenko, Jeffrey Klaiber, Hans-Josef Klauck, Sidney Knight, Samuel Kobia, Robert Kolb, Karla Ann Koll, Heikki Kotila, Donald Kraybill, Philip D. W. Krey, Yves Krumenacker, Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan, Simanga R. Kumalo, Peter Kuzmic, Simon Shui-Man Kwan, Kwok Pui-lan, André LaCocque, Stephen E. Lahey, John Tsz Pang Lai, Emiel Lamberts, Armando Lampe, Craig Lampe, Beverly J. Lanzetta, Eve LaPlante, Lizette Larson-Miller, Ariel Bybee Laughton, Leonard Lawlor, Bentley Layton, Robin A. Leaver, Karen Lebacqz, Archie Chi Chung Lee, Marilyn J. Legge, Hervé LeGrand, D. L. LeMahieu, Raymond Lemieux, Bill J. Leonard, Ellen M. Leonard, Outi Leppä, Jean Lesaulnier, Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis, Henrietta Leyser, Alexei Lidov, Bernard Lightman, Paul Chang-Ha Lim, Carter Lindberg, Mark R. Lindsay, James R. Linville, James C. Livingston, Ann Loades, David Loades, Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole, Lo Lung Kwong, Wati Longchar, Eleazar López, David W. 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Van Bavel, Steven Vanderputten, Peter Van der Veer, Huub Van de Sandt, Louis Van Tongeren, Luke A. Veronis, Noel Villalba, Ramón Vinke, Tim Vivian, David Voas, Elena Volkova, Katharina von Kellenbach, Elina Vuola, Timothy Wadkins, Elaine M. Wainwright, Randi Jones Walker, Dewey D. Wallace, Jerry Walls, Michael J. Walsh, Philip Walters, Janet Walton, Jonathan L. Walton, Wang Xiaochao, Patricia A. Ward, David Harrington Watt, Herold D. Weiss, Laurence L. Welborn, Sharon D. Welch, Timothy Wengert, Traci C. West, Merold Westphal, David Wetherell, Barbara Wheeler, Carolinne White, Jean-Paul Wiest, Frans Wijsen, Terry L. Wilder, Felix Wilfred, Rebecca Wilkin, Daniel H. Williams, D. Newell Williams, Michael A. Williams, Vincent L. Wimbush, Gabriele Winkler, Anders Winroth, Lauri Emílio Wirth, James A. Wiseman, Ebba Witt-Brattström, Teofil Wojciechowski, John Wolffe, Kenman L. Wong, Wong Wai Ching, Linda Woodhead, Wendy M. Wright, Rose Wu, Keith E. Yandell, Gale A. Yee, Viktor Yelensky, Yeo Khiok-Khng, Gustav K. K. Yeung, Angela Yiu, Amos Yong, Yong Ting Jin, You Bin, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Eliana Yunes, Robert Michael Zaller, Valarie H. Ziegler, Barbara Brown Zikmund, Joyce Ann Zimmerman, Aurora Zlotnik, Zhuo Xinping
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3 - Church-Centered Influences on Public Opinion
- Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, Ohio, Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
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chapters 1 and 2 have presented a forceful, empirical argument for the incorporation of specific measures of church-based contextual influence into models exploring religious influences on citizen political opinion and behavior. The evidence also offers a stark reminder that simply assessing clergy speech patterns or levels of religious commitment will not adequately capture the political influence of church. We move now to comprehensive tests of our theoretical framework, focusing in this chapter on the political opinions of sample ELCA and Episcopal Church members. Most importantly, this chapter explores the contours of a larger research agenda, imagining how the investigation of religion and politics can intersect with and help advance public opinion research more generally. As we have articulated throughout this book, the key is to conceptualize “religion” as a community of individuals who may share some common set of beliefs and meet together on a regular basis to engage in communicative behaviors: listening to clergy, praying collectively, talking with each other, reading announcements, and observing what other members think and do religiously and politically. Within this framework, a whole host of interesting and important questions arise, but primarily: What individual, environmental, and social conditions affect political learning and persuasion in church?
Congregations are accessible communities with tremendous diversity within and between them in terms of leadership-membership dynamics, message content and exposure, member attributes, and social ties. This diversity allows for comprehensive nonexperimental studies of the roots of church member political opinions, employing rigorous tests of causation.
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1 - Social Networks and Church Structure
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any theory claiming to evaluate the political influence of churches must begin with a detailed discussion of how churches are organized. In this chapter we will introduce and empirically describe several basic characteristics of congregational organization, focusing specifically on the conduits through which political information flows among church members. The chapter opens by describing the methods used to gather the data we will analyze throughout the book, discussing why we have chosen the ELCA and Episcopal Church to conduct our analysis, and summarizing the unique types of information gathered from our survey respondents. The remainder of this chapter begins to bring to life our theoretical framework of congregational organization as we map the social structure of our sample congregations, focusing principally on political orientations within the entire church and also within church social networks, thus providing empirical evidence for the extent and nature of the church-centered information pathways that lead to political influence.
Congregations large and small are typically diverse organizations across an array of social and political indicators, with many points of contact for individual members and thus many ways for members to acquire knowledge about the lives and beliefs of their fellow congregants. Over time members gain a sense of the congregation as a whole, through meeting other members (typically the first point of contact when entering a new church) and eventually interacting with the clergy and professional staff.
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2 - Clergy Influences and Religious Commitment Reconsidered
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chapter 1 has laid out an argument, with considerable empirical support, for the salience of social networks within congregations as crucial factors affecting the political activities and beliefs of church members. The specification of church-centered formal and informal social networks through the questions posed in our congregational study represents a significant advancement in how social scientists comprehend and measure the political influence of church and, by extension, how political influence in other types of social organizations may be evaluated. But as we argued in the Introduction, social networks are just one component of the complete picture, albeit an essential one. Moreover, our theoretical framework does not merely assert that aspects of social networks should simply be incorporated into existing explanatory models of church member political behavior. Rather, we argue that the five sets of factors outlined in the Introduction work in concert to affect what church members think and do in the political realm. This assertion necessitates a reinterpretation of how all potential explanatory factors influence congregant political behavior, particularly in light of the strong initial evidence supporting the salience of social networks.
The two explanatory factors most in need of reinterpretation are clergy influences and religious commitment, and this chapter offers an examination of the nature – more specifically, the circumscribed nature – of the influence each factor exerts on church member political behavior.
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Appendix: Variable Coding
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Note: Variables are listed in alphabetical order.
Adult education involvement “In the past year, have you attended any church adult education groups held about one of the following topics?” Twelve topics listed: hunger and poverty, full communion with Episcopalians, women's issues, environment, gay rights, candidate forums, economy, abortion, gambling, family problems, general government and politics, denominational issues.
Age Measured in years.
Ascribed clergy efficacy “Ministers have great capacity to influence the political and social views of their congregation.” 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = not sure/neutral, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree.
Brand loyalty Is an index composed of summed responses of “yes” (= 1) to “Were you raised in a Lutheran/Episcopal church?”, and “no” (= 1) to the following questions: “Have you ever regularly attended a NON-Lutheran/Episcopal church?” and “Have you ever stopped attending any church for more than six months?” Responses are then averaged, meaning a range of 0 to 1, with 1 indicating high brand loyalty.
Christian Coalition evaluation “How positive or negative do you feel about the groups listed below? The Christian Coalition (Pat Robertson).” 1 = very positive, 2 = positive, 3 = neutral, 4 = negative, 5 = very negative.
Church activity isolation (clergy data) Index measure; the index gains one point if the clergyperson's congregation was less involved in the community, had a lower social status, or was less active in politics than were other community churches. Index is averaged to account for not all clergy answering all questions.
Introduction: A Theory of Religious Influence on Political Behavior
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americans have always formed and joined associations devoted to every imaginable purpose, whether social, cultural, recreational, religious, or political. These tangible expressions of Americans' seemingly endless capacity for associational life have motivated scholarly inquiries since the early days of the republic. Thoughtful observers of American politics have contributed immensely to this literature, understanding that group activism models the conditions in which democratic forms of government may flourish. After observing the myriad forms of associational life throughout his travels in the early nineteenth-century United States, Tocqueville vested associations with the capacity to protect freedom from encroachment: “If each citizen did not learn … to combine with his fellow citizens for the purpose of defending [his freedom], it is clear that tyranny would unavoidably increase together with its equality” (1994: 106). More than a century later, David Truman asserted that associations are essential to ensure the freedom to act, linking the modern American forms of group life to the classical ideals of Aristotle: people “must exist in society in order to manifest those capacities and accomplishments that distinguish them from the other animals” (1951: 14).
From the insights of Tocqueville, to the findings of the early behavioralist literature in the mid-twentieth century (Berelson, Lazarsfeld, and McPhee 1954; Dewey 1927; Lenski 1961; Truman 1951), through the sophisticated empirical analyses of leading contemporary social scientists (Huckfeldt and Sprague 1995; Putnam 2000; Zuckerman 2005), one central insight recurs: group membership has political consequences.
5 - The Construction of Political Mobilization in Churches
- Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, Ohio, Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
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social scientists have studied the democratic nature of citizen political participation from two principal angles. The dominant approach begins with social inequality, focusing on the unequal distribution of resources and how such inequities may be remedied through civil society. Verba, Schlozman, and Brady (1995) articulate the primary explanatory framework in their civic voluntarism model: civic resources, personal engagement, and social recruitment are generally necessary features to push people into the political process. Subsequent research has augmented their findings, tweaking the emphasis on one feature or another or exploring how the dynamics of acquiring politically relevant resources vary for different subsets of the population (Ayala 2000; Brown and Wolford 1994; Burns, Schlozman, and Verba 2001; Djupe and Grant 2001; Musick, Wilson, and Bynum 2000; Schlozman, Burns, and Verba 1994, 1999; Schlozman et al. 1995; Verba et al. 1993; Verba, Burns, and Schlozman 1997). Research in this field has identified churches as a particularly important source of civic skills that help to subsidize resource deficits, largely through practical leadership experiences (Cassel 1999; Leege 1988; Peterson 1992; but see Djupe and Grant 2001) and augmented engagement (Calhoun-Brown 1996; Harris 1999; Hougland and Christenson 1983).
The other major line of research on political participation stems from concerns about citizenship quality and questions about difference – to sustain democracy, citizens must deliberate to ascertain their interests and the best solutions to public problems.
7 - Conclusion
- Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, Ohio, Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
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in the preceding chapters we have articulated and tested a theoretical framework that explores and explains the political influence of church. In this concluding chapter, we move forward to assess the implications of our analysis. The results presented in this book clearly implicate several facets of contemporary theories about how religion affects politics, and we will offer commentary on these implications. However, we believe this study also offers a promising roadmap for future investigations of political behavior and public opinion, set within religious organizations as well as in nonreligious groups. Moreover, because of the centrality of social interaction within organizations explored in this book, we are in an excellent position to explore the tensions between participatory and deliberative democracy as described by Diana Mutz.
Participatory versus Deliberative Democracy
In widely noted and important research, Diana Mutz has updated an old line of inquiry into the effects of cross pressures on individual political behavior (2002a, 2002b; 2006; see also Berelson, Lazarsfeld, and McPhee 1956; Leighley 1990; MacKuen 1990; McClurg 2006a). Mutz finds, among other things, that facing a discussant who holds different political opinions induces attitude ambivalence and evasion of pressure from social accountability, both of which serve to reduce political involvement. Her bold conclusion is that citizens either participate in politics based on a politically supportive network, communicating their more extreme, less tolerant views, or they are engaged in a deliberative democracy, in which they are confronted with diverse views promoting moderation and tolerance, but have weakened enthusiasm for political action.
The Political Influence of Churches
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Djupe and Gilbert investigate the political influence of church and how membership in organized religious bodies shapes the political life of members. Djupe and Gilbert's goal in this inquiry is to re-center scholarly attention on the voluntary association as an essential element of American civic and political life. They develop a theoretical framework that captures the multifaceted elements of church life that affect individual political attitudes and actions. Political information from clergy, small groups, and social networks flows plentifully in churches, but individuals process that information differently depending on their motivations related to their status in the church. Articulating a more fully specified model of how associations expose individuals to political information and norms will help us understand the political opinions and behavior of citizens and the contribution of that pattern to sustaining democracy.
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4 - The Resourceful Believer
- Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, Ohio, Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
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effective representation must always be a central concern in democratic polities. Addressing questions of representation involves institutional structures in part, but much of the responsibility for assuring adequate representation falls to citizens directly. The public must participate through available channels, though not everyone has the resources, interest, and invitation necessary to do so. There is near universal agreement that civil society can subsidize these deficits of crucial participatory ingredients, but researchers have often mischaracterized the problems being addressed and have failed to explore the nature of civil society's solution to sufficient depth.
Both of these concerns alter the nature of inquiry into representational deficits. First, while underrepresentation should be conceptualized in part as a problem individuals own through a lack of resources or motivation, it is just as significantly a community-based problem. Even resourceful people can be underrepresented due to extant conditions where they live. Therefore, the question can be recast: how can civil society rectify an imbalance of representation in a community where some people (perhaps independent of their personal resources) are socially marginalized? Second, the groups that assist individuals to acquire the tools necessary to boost political participation may be subject to the same dynamics that produce the community imbalance – some groups may not have the same access to civil society as others.
To rectify these critical concerns, this chapter examines how one important institution of civil society, the church, distributes access to one crucial resource needed for political activity: civic skills.
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The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures
- Deborah J. Pain, Christopher G. R. Bowden, Andrew A. Cunningham, Richard Cuthbert, Devojit Das, Martin Gilbert, Ram D. Jakati, Yadvendradev Jhala, Aleem A. Khan, Vinny Naidoo, J. Lindsay Oaks, Jemima Parry-Jones, Vibhu Prakash, Asad Rahmani, Sachin P. Ranade, Hem Sagar Baral, Kalu Ram Senacha, S. Saravanan, Nita Shah, Gerry Swan, Devendra Swarup, Mark A. Taggart, Richard T. Watson, Munir Z. Virani, Kerri Wolter, Rhys E. Green
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Gyps vulture populations across the Indian subcontinent collapsed in the 1990s and continue to decline. Repeated population surveys showed that the rate of decline was so rapid that elevated mortality of adult birds must be a key demographic mechanism. Post mortem examination showed that the majority of dead vultures had visceral gout, due to kidney damage. The realisation that diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug potentially nephrotoxic to birds, had become a widely used veterinary medicine led to the identification of diclofenac poisoning as the cause of the decline. Surveys of diclofenac contamination of domestic ungulate carcasses, combined with vulture population modelling, show that the level of contamination is sufficient for it to be the sole cause of the decline. Testing on vultures of meloxicam, an alternative NSAID for livestock treatment, showed that it did not harm them at concentrations likely to be encountered by wild birds and would be a safe replacement for diclofenac. The manufacture of diclofenac for veterinary use has been banned, but its sale has not. Consequently, it may be some years before diclofenac is removed from the vultures' food supply. In the meantime, captive populations of three vulture species have been established to provide sources of birds for future reintroduction programmes.
Optical near-field enhancement around lithographic metallic nanostructures using an azo-dye polymer: direct observation and realization of sub-wavelength complex structures
- Christophe Hubert, Anna Rumyantseva, Gilles Lérondel, Johan Grand, Sergeï Kostcheev, Laurent Billot, Alexandre Vial, Renaud Bachelot, Pascal Royer, Gilbert Chang, Stephen K. Gray, Gary P. Wiederrecht, George C. Schatz
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We report on the direct observation of optical near-field enhancement around metallic nanoparticles. We used an easy to set up approach which consists in irradiating a photosensitive azo-dye polymer film spin-coated on metallic nanostructures. Photoinduced topographical modifications of the polymer film surface are characterized after irradiation by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Comparisons between AFM images and numerical simulations show that these photo-induced topography agrees with the near-field intensity distribution around the nano-structures. The possibility of generating complex structures is demonstrated.
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak
- April Alliston, Elizabeth Ammons, Jean Arnold, Nina Baym, Sandra L. Beckett, Peter G. Beidler, Roger A. Berger, Sandra Bermann, J.J. Wilson, Troy Boone, Alison Booth, Wayne C. Booth, James Phelan, Marie Borroff, Ihab Hassan, Ulrich Weisstein, Zack Bowen, Jill Campbell, Dan Campion, Jay Caplan, Maurice Charney, Beverly Lyon Clark, Robert A. Colby, Thomas C. Coleman III, Nicole Cooley, Richard Dellamora, Morris Dickstein, Terrell Dixon, Emory Elliott, Caryl Emerson, Ann W. Engar, Lars Engle, Kai Hammermeister, N. N. Feltes, Mary Anne Ferguson, Annie Finch, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Jerry Aline Flieger, Norman Friedman, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Sandra M. Gilbert, Laurie Grobman, George Guida, Liselotte Gumpel, R. K. Gupta, Florence Howe, Cathy L. Jrade, Richard A. Kaye, Calhoun Winton, Murray Krieger, Robert Langbaum, Richard A. Lanham, Marilee Lindemann, Paul Michael Lützeler, Thomas J. Lynn, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Michelle A. Massé, Irving Massey, Georges May, Christian W. Hallstein, Gita May, Lucy McDiarmid, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Koritha Mitchell, Robin Smiles, Kenyatta Albeny, George Monteiro, Joel Myerson, Alan Nadel, Ashton Nichols, Jeffrey Nishimura, Neal Oxenhandler, David Palumbo-Liu, Vincent P. Pecora, David Porter, Nancy Potter, Ronald C. Rosbottom, Elias L. Rivers, Gerhard F. Strasser, J. L. Styan, Marianna De Marco Torgovnick, Gary Totten, David van Leer, Asha Varadharajan, Orrin N. C. Wang, Sharon Willis, Louise E. Wright, Donald A. Yates, Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Richard E. Zeikowitz, Angelika Bammer, Dale Bauer, Karl Beckson, Betsy A. Bowen, Stacey Donohue, Sheila Emerson, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Jay L. Halio, Karl Kroeber, Terence Hawkes, William B. Hunter, Mary Jambus, Willard F. King, Nancy K. Miller, Jody Norton, Ann Pellegrini, S. P. Rosenbaum, Lorie Roth, Robert Scholes, Joanne Shattock, Rosemary T. VanArsdel, Alfred Bendixen, Alarma Kathleen Brown, Michael J. Kiskis, Debra A. Castillo, Rey Chow, John F. Crossen, Robert F. Fleissner, Regenia Gagnier, Nicholas Howe, M. Thomas Inge, Frank Mehring, Hyungji Park, Jahan Ramazani, Kenneth M. Roemer, Deborah D. Rogers, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Regina M. Schwartz, John T. Shawcross, Brenda R. Silver, Andrew von Hendy, Virginia Wright Wexman, Britta Zangen, A. Owen Aldridge, Paula R. Backscheider, Roland Bartel, E. M. Forster, Milton Birnbaum, Jonathan Bishop, Crystal Downing, Frank H. Ellis, Roberto Forns-Broggi, James R. Giles, Mary E. Giles, Susan Blair Green, Madelyn Gutwirth, Constance B. Hieatt, Titi Adepitan, Edgar C. Knowlton, Jr., Emanuel Mussman, Sally Todd Nelson, Robert O. Preyer, David Diego Rodriguez, Guy Stern, James Thorpe, Robert J. Wilson, Rebecca S. Beal, Joyce Simutis, Betsy Bowden, Sara Cooper, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Tarek el Ariss, Richard Jewell, John W. Kronik, Wendy Martin, Stuart Y. McDougal, Hugo Méndez-Ramírez, Ivy Schweitzer, Armand E. Singer, G. Thomas Tanselle, Tom Bishop, Mary Ann Caws, Marcel Gutwirth, Christophe Ippolito, Lawrence D. Kritzman, James Longenbach, Tim McCracken, Wolfe S. Molitor, Diane Quantic, Gregory Rabassa, Ellen M. Tsagaris, Anthony C. Yu, Betty Jean Craige, Wendell V. Harris, J. Hillis Miller, Jesse G. Swan, Helene Zimmer-Loew, Peter Berek, James Chandler, Hanna K. Charney, Philip Cohen, Judith Fetterley, Herbert Lindenberger, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Maximillian E. Novak, Richard Ohmann, Marjorie Perloff, Mark Reynolds, James Sledd, Harriet Turner, Marie Umeh, Flavia Aloya, Regina Barreca, Konrad Bieber, Ellis Hanson, William J. Hyde, Holly A. Laird, David Leverenz, Allen Michie, J. Wesley Miller, Marvin Rosenberg, Daniel R. Schwarz, Elizabeth Welt Trahan, Jean Fagan Yellin
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