American Behavioral Scientist
Corrigendum to Politicians, Social Media, and Digital Publics: Old Rights, New Terrain
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School Desegregation and Resegregation in the Upper South: An Introduction and Overview
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Despite strong progress toward school desegregation in the late 20th century, many locations in the Upper South have recently experienced school resegregation. The articles in this issue investigate simila…
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The Past, Present, and Future of Brown’s Mandate: A View from North Carolina
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The unanimous 1954 Brown v. Board of Education opinion is one of the most consequential legal decisions of the 20th century. Even though it concerned government sanctioned racial segregation of public scho…
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Location, Location, Location? School District, Length of Residence and Attitudes Toward Diversity and Neighborhood Schools in the Upper South
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Attitudes toward diversity and neighborhood schools matter because they underlie many families’ decisions for residential location, with consequences for both school systems and students. Case studies of d…
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Case Studies of School Desegregation and Resegregation: How Can We Pursue External Validity?
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Case studies form a vital part of sociological inquiry. Despite their important strengths, they often fail to pursue issues of external validity or replication, an important direction for social science ge…
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Using Opinion Polling Data to Replicate Non-Experimental Quantitative Results Across Time and Space: An Exploration of Attitudes Surrounding School Desegregation and Resegregation Policies
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. A renewed call for replications has emerged in social science research. An important form of replication involves exploring the extent to which findings from a given study hold in other contexts. This stud…
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Who Favors Magnets and Who Favors Charters? Political Ideology, Social Purpose Politics, and School Choice in the Upper South
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. School choice is an increasingly important feature of the US educational landscape. Numerous studies examine whether a particular form of school choice promotes student achievement or whether a type of sch…
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Do Presidential Primary Debates Increase Political Polarization?
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This study presents the results of a quasi-experiment to assess the effects of viewing a strategically manipulated portion of a 2020 Democratic Primary debate. Our aim was to assess the polarizing potentia…
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A Total Error Approach for Validating Event Data
American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 603-624, May 2022. Understanding how useful any particular set of event data might be for conflict research requires appropriate methods for assessing validity when ground truth data about the pop…
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Random Sampling in Corpus Design: Cross-Context Generalizability in Automated Multicountry Protest Event Collection
American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 578-602, May 2022. What is the most optimal way of creating a gold standard corpus for training a machine learning system that is designed for automatically collecting protest information in a cro…