A survey of prior research testing the threat and contact hypotheses uncovers a wide, often conflicting, range of conclusions regarding the influence of contexts on attitudes. Through a reanalysis (verification and replication) of publicly available data we test the threat/contact hypotheses by...

What types of cities tend to aggressively pursue industrial or retail firms? What types of cities tend to favor housing over business development? What motivates cities to try to slow residential growth? Custodians of Place answers these and many other questions

The relationship between environmentalism and land use is increasingly salient in many communities. In this paper we examine how attitudes toward the environment —- as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (Duncan et al. 2007 —- and contact with farmers and agribusiness —- as measured by...