Suchergebnisse

Where to live as an information problem : three contemporary examples / William Aspray and Melissa G. Ocepek -- Turning in place : Real estate agents and the move from information custodians to information brokers / Steve Sawyer -- The evolving residential real estate information ecosystem : the rise of Zillow / James W. Cortada -- Privacy, surveillance, and the "smart home" / Philip Doty -- This old house, Fixer upper, and Better homes & gardens : the housing crisis and media sources / Melissa G. Ocepek -- A community responds to growth : an information story about what makes for a good place to live / Hannah Weber, Vaughan Nagy, Janghee Cho, and William Aspray -- The valley between us : the meta-hodology of racial segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Judith Pintar -- Modeling hope : boundary objects and design patterns in a heartland heterotopia / David Hopping -- Home buying in everyday life : how emotion and time pressure shape high stakes deciders' information behavior / Carol F. Landry -- In search of home : examining information seeking and sources that help African Americans determine where to live / Jamillah R. Gabriel -- Where to live in retirement : a complex information problem / William Aspray -- Closing statement.

During the pre-confirmation debate over Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, critics accused her of allowing her background to influence her judicial decisions. This article assesses the validity of such a claim for all sitting justices from 1875 to 2007 in one relevant policy area, immigration. In this article, we look at all 185 immigration-related decisions by the Supreme Court from its creation through 2007. Logistic general estimating equation regression analysis of Supreme Court voting on these cases suggests that justices who were nominated by Democratic presidents, who were urbanites, and who had previous judicial experience were more likely to vote in favor of immigration. However, justices who grew up in the Southwest, had Southern European ancestors, or were ideological conservatives were more hostile to immigration. Although public opinion, the unemployment rate, and the percent foreign-born in a given year did not affect justices' votes, non-asylum cases and appeals from the Eighth Circuit were more likely to receive favorable treatment. The mean level of racial liberalism of the Senators in office during a particular justice's confirmation hearings likewise had a large impact on his or her subsequent rulings. These findings suggest that Supreme Court voting on immigration is substantially influenced by justices' background and political preferences as well as by some political and legal structures. These results thus support Legal Realism and New Institutionalism instead of the Traditional Legal Model of Supreme Court behavior.

Formal approaches are those taken by government bodies through laws, court decisions and actions of government regulatory bodies. Informal approaches are those taken by individuals, non profit organizations, industries working at self-regulation, etc. Because the formal means are tied to a particular legal system, this kind of approach is nation-specific and the book focuses on the United States. But many of the things the authors have to say about US food policy and the interactions between formal and informal approaches would also be of interest to policymakers and food industry professional

This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet. One major theme running through the book is business opportunities and failures, as well as the harms to consumers and traditional brick-and-mortar companies that occurred as entrepreneurs tried to take advantage of the Internet to create online companies related to food. The other major theme is the concept of trust online and different models used by different companies to make their web presence seem trustworthy. The book describes a number of major food companies, including AllRecipes, Betty Crocker, Cook's Illustrated, Epicurious, Groupon, OpenTable, and Yelp. The book draws on business history, food studies, and information studies for its approach.