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Stack, Steven; Adamczyk, Amy; Cao, Liqun – Social Forces, 2010
Explanations of variability in public opinion on crime have drawn disproportionately from the literature on specific symbolic orientations including religious fundamentalism and racial prejudice. In contrast, this article hypothesizes that public opinion is linked to the strength of a general cultural axis of nations: survivalism vs.…
Descriptors: Investigations, Public Opinion, Cross Cultural Studies, Predictor Variables
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Junisbai, Azamat K. – Social Forces, 2010
Analyzing data from the 2007 Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Inequality Survey, I identify and compare the determinants of economic justice attitudes in two formerly similar majority-Muslim nations that are now distinguished almost exclusively by their dissimilar economic circumstances following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Kazakhstan, where the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Social Justice
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McAdam, Doug; Brandt, Cynthia – Social Forces, 2009
We use survey data from all accepted applicants to Teach for America 1993-98 to assess the longer-term effect of youth service on participants' current civic attitudes and behaviors. While TFA "graduates" score higher than the two comparison groups--"drop-outs" and "non-matriculants"--on a broad range of attitudinal items measuring civic…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Volunteers, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation