Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the...

Political values are a central motivation for political behavior, prompting significant research programs in political science and public opinion research, but rigorous efforts to compare any two such research programs are rare, which creates barriers to developing theory and improved...

Rational Choice (RC), institutionalist, and post-positivist approaches to policy theory have significantly advanced scholarly understandings, as have Punctuated Equilibria Theory (PET), The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), and Policy Network Theory (PNT), which to some extent draw on these...

Can courts cause dramatic policy change? And if courts can, are there institutional features of courts and/or conditions under which they operate that make them particularly able and likely to change policy dramatically? Public law scholars would generally answer “no” to the first question,...

Judicial ideology as conceptualized in the attitudinal model (AM) developed by Jeffrey Segal and Harold Spaeth remains the dominant explanation for US Supreme Court decisions. However, while there is consensus that judicial ideology is crucial in explaining Court behavior, the AM remains...

Two survey approaches to measuring cultural effects on risk views have been developed, both informed by the grid/group model advanced by Douglas and Wildavsky, well known to many risk analysts. Using data from an online national U.S. panel, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted of...

Different approaches to operationalizing the cultural theory (CT) developed by Douglas, Thompson, Wildavsky, and others in survey research on risk perceptions are rarely compared, never for the same people. We compare for US respondents the construct validity of cultural worldview measures...