Rank-order implications of social construction theory: Does air quality depend on social constructions?

Al-Kohlani, Sumaia A.; Campbell, Heather E.

doi:10.1007/s11077-016-9251-3

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“…Most of the coefficients in this empirical analysis provide evidence in support of expanding EJ thinking and analysis to religious groups. And, these findings should make us think about other groups that may be discriminated against, such as single mothers (Al‐Kohlani & Campbell, 2016), or LGBTQ minorities (e.g., Taylor, 2007).…”

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Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities

Al-Kohlani

Campbell

2021

Review of Policy Research

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For more than 30 years, significant research in the United States has found that racial and ethnic minorities suffer disproportionately from nearness to environmental disamenities compared with white non‐Hispanics and that these results persist even controlling for poverty and “which came first,” the minorities or the disamenities. The engrained discriminatory findings of this environmental justice (EJ) research have led some to argue that we observe “systemic racism,” built into our social systems in ways that may be difficult to perceive. Yet, within the history of the United States, racial and ethnic minorities are not the only groups that have been systematically discriminated against; various religious groups also have histories of discrimination. Here we consider whether, holding constant race and ethnicity, some religious groups may also suffer from “EJ syndrome.” Since the US Census does not collect data on religion, to measure the presence of some religious groups that may be discriminated against, we use an original dataset on the presence of Jewish, Muslim, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (LDS, aka Mormon), and Roman Catholic houses of worship within California's Census tracts. Our results indicate that even controlling for race/ethnicity and income, the presence of Jewish or Muslim houses of worship in a California Census tract increases the likelihood of environmental burden as measured by the CalEnviroScreen 3.0 index of pollution and community vulnerability.

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Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities

Al-Kohlani

Campbell

2021

Review of Policy Research

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“…In determining how the public answers this question, early scholars emphasised the socially constructed nature of target populations (Schneider & Ingram, 1993). These theories have since spurred waves of both empirical assessment (Al‐Kohlani & Campbell, 2016; Kreitzer & Smith, 2018; Pierce et al, 2014) and practical application to politics (Bell, 2020; Moon, 2020; Schroedel & Jordan, 1998). One specific domain that political scientists and public policy scholars have applied this work to is that of the welfare state (Hussey & Pearson‐Merkowitz, 2012).…”

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Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state

Crabtree

Wehde

2022

Soc Policy Adm

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How does the public decide who is deserving of welfare benefits? To shed light on this question, we investigate whether the CARIN principles of deservingness—specifically the ideas of control, attitude, reciprocity, identity, and need—impact the public's perception of American welfare target groups. We draw contrast between traditional welfare programs and pandemic‐related programs to gain a more comparative understanding of the principles' effects as well as to determine what role the pandemic may play in shaping welfare perceptions. We report that positive, deserving social constructions exist for recipients of both traditional and pandemic‐related welfare programs, and we find evidence that the distinction between traditional and pandemic‐related programs is important for deservingness perceptions in the US. Overall, these results suggest the importance of the CARIN criteria in an American context.

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“…Recent empirical studies show that the uneven environment‐related benefits for various social groups are, to a varying extent, the aftermath of their differentiated social categorizations. Al‐Kohlani and Campbell () found that in a rank‐order way, the magnitude of air pollution in California Central Valley cities is positively associated with the degree of negativity of target populations' social constructions (i.e., advantaged: higher education attainment and business firms, contenders: banks, dependents: children under 18 and single mothers, deviants: prisons and crimes). Liang () examined the effect of welfare policy, which is a notable degenerative policy targeting African Americans, on state agencies' environmental policy implementation outputs for this group in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program of the Clean Water Act.…”

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“…In many policy domains, the allocation of policy benefits and burdens is contingent on the stereotyping of target populations (Pierce et al, ). Despite the burgeoning scholarship, this theoretical framework has not been broadly adopted to analyze the environment‐related phenomena or the feed‐forward effect of degenerative policy design on government's public service delivery for populations of environmental justice concern (for exception, see Al‐Kohlani & Campbell, ; Liang, ).…”

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Latinos and Environmental Justice: Examining the Link between Degenerative Policy, Political Representation, and Environmental Policy Implementation

Liang¹

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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The theory of social construction and policy design is insightful for exploring the circumstances in which the allocation of policy benefits and burdens is attributed to the feed‐forward effect of degenerative policy that institutionalizes bias and reinforces the prevailing categorization and embedded social meaning regarding target populations. However, this theoretical framework has not been broadly adopted to analyze the environment‐related phenomena. With a nationwide, block‐group‐level sample, this study examines the extent to which degenerative policies pertaining to immigrants influence state agencies' environmental regulatory outputs for predominantly Latino communities. Results show that in the states with moderately to most restrictive immigrant policy and high levels of Latino representation in legislatures, the rigorousness of government agencies' compliance monitoring activities decreases for Latino neighborhoods of environmental justice concern, as states' policy stance toward immigrants becomes more unfavorable. More Latino elected officials do not bolster policy implementation efforts for the vulnerable communities or offset the backlash effect of immigrant policy.

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Rank-order implications of social construction theory: Does air quality depend on social constructions?

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities

Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities

Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state

Latinos and Environmental Justice: Examining the Link between Degenerative Policy, Political Representation, and Environmental Policy Implementation

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