Senate Voting and Social Construction of Target Populations: A Study of AIDS Policy Making, 1987–1992

Schroedel, Jean Reith; Jordan, Daniel R.

doi:10.1215/03616878-23-1-107

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“…13 Calhoun 1995Cohen 1999 uses the term "secondary marginalization" to identify the same phenomenon. 14 See Schneider andIngram 1993, 1995;Schroedel and Jordan 1998;Hancock 2004. While intersectionality clearly would be part of a larger constructivist tradition, I leave the ontological and epistemological concerns of constructivism and their relationship to intersectionality for another article.…”

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When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

Hancock¹

2007

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In the past twenty years, intersectionality has emerged as a compelling response to arguments on behalf of identity-based politics across the discipline. It has done so by drawing attention to the simultaneous and interacting effects of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and national origin as categories of difference. Intersectional arguments and research findings have had varying levels of impact in feminist theory, social movements, international human rights, public policy, and electoral behavior research within political science and across the disciplines of sociology, critical legal studies, and history. Yet consideration of intersectionality as a research paradigm has yet to gain a wide foothold in political science. This article closely reads research on race and gender across subfields of political science to present a coherent set of empirical research standards for intersectionality.

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When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

Hancock¹

2007

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“…Dependents also lack power like deviants but are positively socially constructed. Among the dependents are people living in poverty (Brucker, ; Camou, ; Chanley & Alozie, ; Drew, ; Garrow, ; Guetzkow, ; Hynes & Hayes, ; Soss, ) and those living with AIDS (Donovan, , , ; Hogan, ; Patterson & Keefe, ; Schroedel & Jordan, ). Others that occupy the dependent category include children (Bushouse, ), small businesses (Anglund, , ), and middle class African‐Americans (Sidney, , ).…”

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“…Interestingly, some of the applications identifying advantaged populations identify groups that are not generally viewed by the public or preconceived by the researchers as having significant political power but are nonetheless considered advantaged . For example, government workers (Schroedel & Jordan, ) and prison administrators (Hogan, ) are not likely to be viewed as “powerful” groups; however, applications identifying the advantaged show that, within specific contexts, these groups can possess both considerable authority and power.…”

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Social Construction and Policy Design: A Review of Past Applications

Pierce¹,

Siddiki²,

Jones³

et al. 2014

Policy Studies Journal

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One of the leading theories for understanding the policy process is the theory of social construction and policy design developed by Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram. The theory incorporates the social construction and power of target populations to understand the development and implications of policy design. In order to better understand its empirical breadth, depth, and general utility, our analysis reviews all past publications of the theory, focusing specifically on empirical applications (N = 111), from 1993 to 2013. Based on this review, we find: a recent increase in the number of applications of this theory; that these applications appear across a wide range of outlets, relate to numerous policy domains, and are conducted by a diverse group of domestic and international scholars; that the target population proposition has been applied with greater frequency than the theory's feed-forward proposition; and that scholars have a notable interest in understanding causal mechanisms leading to changes in the positioning of target populations among advantaged, contender, dependent, and deviant target population categories. Following a descriptive review of past publications, we offer specific suggestions for theoretical development and future research.KEY WORDS: public policy, policy process, meta-analysis, literature review, social construction, policy design, feedback IntroductionIn 1999, Paul Sabatier edited a volume entitled Theories of the Policy Process (Sabatier, 1999a). Within this now near canonical tome are emergent theories of the policy process from the previous 15 years deemed by Sabatier to sufficiently adhere to scientific standards at the time. Through this effort, he charted a path forward for future policy process scholarship. Explicitly omitted from the edited volume was the work of what Sabatier termed constructivists. At the time, constructivists were a minority of policy process scholars (e.g., Fischer & Forrester, 1993) that focused on the socially constructed nature of policy as well as reality, in which perceptions and intersubjective meaning-making processes were considered central to understanding and explaining the policy process. Among his criticisms, Sabatier described constructivist methods as "nonfalsifiable" and their ideas as "free-floating and unconnected to specific individuals, institutions, or socio-economic conditions" bs_bs_banner The Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 42, No. (Sabatier, 1999b, p. 11). Of course Sabatier was challenged for his decision to exclude this body of work, especially by European scholars (e.g., Parsons, 2000;Radaelli, 2000), but was unyielding in his position to exclude constructivist approaches in the edited volume.One of the most notable constructivist approaches included in Sabatier's "omitted frameworks" list was the theory of social construction and policy design that was first articulated by Schneider and Ingram in 1993 (Sabatier, 1999b, p. 11). However, by the second edition of Theories of the Policy Process, Sabatier (2007a) changed his mind. ...

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“…Using Schneider and Ingram’s 1993 model, Schroedel and Jordan (1998) sampled 30 roll-call votes pertaining to AIDS legislation. Those votes resulted in 11 groups being explicitly targeted by Senate AIDS legislation.…”

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Analyzing HIV/AIDS and Alcohol and Other Drug Use as a Social Problem

Patterson

Waya)²

2010

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services

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Most prevention and intervention activities directed toward HIV/AIDS and alcohol and other drug use separately as well as the combining of the two (e.g., those who are both HIV/AIDS and using alcohol and other drugs) comes in the form of specific, individualized therapies without consideration of social influences that may have a greater impact on this population. Approaching this social problem from the narrowed view of individualized, mi-cro solutions disregards the larger social conditions that affect or perhaps even are at the root of the problem. This paper analyzes the social problem of HIV/AIDS and alcohol and other drug abuse using three sociological perspectives—social construction theory, ethnomethodology, and conflict theory—informing the reader of the broader influences accompanying this problem.

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Senate Voting and Social Construction of Target Populations: A Study of AIDS Policy Making, 1987–1992

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

Social Construction and Policy Design: A Review of Past Applications

Analyzing HIV/AIDS and Alcohol and Other Drug Use as a Social Problem

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