Many organization theories suggest that divergent goals can hamper an organization's pursuit of its primary mission. An earlier version of this article analyzed the effect of the pursuit of divergent goals on American public schools. This is an update of the original article that adds two years...

The most recent global economic crisis has increased scrutiny of neo-liberal economic principles that have resulted in poor treatment of workers, harmed the environment, and undermined the economies of developing countries. Calls to increase regulation and monitoring of corporations are on the...

Scholars have made a significant effort to understand how temporal variation in federal policy has altered the migratory behavior of immigrants. Little is known about the effect of spatial variation in modern day federal enforcement. The role of subnational policies pertaining to immigration is...

The idea of social capital has had a powerful impact on the study of politics, policy, and social science at large. In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention towards understanding what social capital is and exploring the direct and indirect consequences of living in high social...

While political science research on immigration attitudes among the American public has traditionally focused on such factors as economic threat, social context, socioeconomic status, and racial prejudice, relatively few studies have examined the psychological determinants of immigration- and...

Scholars and practitioners within the U.S. education system have focused considerable attention on developing new programs aimed at raising educational achievement for disadvantaged students. New programs are only one way to improve student performance, however; recent work in public...