Renovation or revolution?: new territorial politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom
In: Perspectives in British-Irish studies
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In: Perspectives in British-Irish studies
In: Irish studies in international affairs, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 122-148
ISSN: 2009-0072
In: Irish studies in international affairs, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 140-171
ISSN: 2009-0072
In: Sociology of education: a journal of the American Sociological Association, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 267-286
ISSN: 1939-8573
This article reexamines the conjecture of James S. Coleman that intergenerational social closure promotes student achievement in high schools, analyzing the best national data on academic achievement and social networks: the 2002 and 2004 waves of the Education Longitudinal Study. The results show that within the Catholic school sector, schools that are characterized by dense parental networks have substantially higher average student achievement. This association can be reduced but not eliminated by conditioning on available measures of student network structure and standard measures of family background. In contrast, in the public school sector, a similarly strong bivariate association between dense parental networks and student achievement can be attributed almost entirely to these basic conditioning variables. These results represent, at best, a mixed verdict for Coleman's predictions. Intergenerational closure in its currently observed form does not increase achievement in public schools, suggesting that parental monitoring of discipline does not outweigh some of the costs of parental closure. However, intergenerational closure may increase achievement in Catholic schools to a modest degree because Catholic schools are affiliated with religious communities that have appropriable norms.
In: Sociological methodology, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 231-282
ISSN: 1467-9531
Least squares regression estimates of causal effects are conditional-variance-weighted estimates of individual-level causal effects. In this paper, we extract from the literature on counterfactual causality a simple nine-step routine to determine whether or not the implicit weighting of regression has generated a misleading estimate of the average causal effect. The diagnostic routine is presented along with a detailed and original demonstration, using data from the 2002 and 2004 waves of the Education Longitudinal Study, for a contested but important causal effect in educational research: the effect of Catholic schooling, in comparison to public schooling, on the achievement of high school students in the United States.
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 802
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 135
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 478-479
ISSN: 1354-5078
In: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
This comparative social scientific volume takes examples of transitions to democracy (East Europe, Spain) to peace (South Africa, Israel, Northern Ireland) and to territorial decentralization (the United Kingdom, France, Spain), showing in each case how socio-political change and identity change have interlocked.
In: The Association for the Study of Nationalities
In: Ethnopolitics
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 113, Heft 3, S. 548-549
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: National Identities, November 1, 2009
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In: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 12 (3-4) 2006
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In: National identities, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 87-99
ISSN: 1469-9907
In: Nationalism & ethnic politics, Band 12, Heft 3-4, S. 323-346
ISSN: 1557-2986