15 results on '"Joseph A. Hamm"'
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2. Editorial: Special Issue with Research Topic
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Sonja Zmerli, Jennifer R. Gaskell, James Weinberg, Joseph A. Hamm, and Ben Seyd
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Distrust ,Polymers and Plastics ,democracy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,trust ,Democracy ,theory and measurement ,Politics ,Political science ,Law ,distrust ,media_common ,General Environmental Science ,mistrust - Published
- 2021
3. Public vulnerability to the police: a quantitative inquiry
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Joseph A. Hamm, Louie Rivers, James D. Carr, and Rosalind Searle
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media_common.quotation_subject ,050901 criminology ,05 social sciences ,Vulnerability ,Criminology ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Race (biology) ,Harm ,State (polity) ,Salient ,Political science ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,0509 other social sciences ,Law ,General Psychology ,Legitimacy ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,media_common - Abstract
The recent protests regarding the state of policing in the United States clearly demonstrate that how the police do their job creates a salient potential for harm to the public. This study applies a multidimensional paradigm of risk perception to quantify evaluations of police-caused harm. Using data from a national (U.S.) convenience sample ( n = 1,890) that oversampled individuals who self-identified as black or Muslim, we tested whether these evaluations vary systematically (using confidence intervals), whether they covary with police legitimacy (using structural equation modeling), and the extent to which that covariance differs by demographic status (using multiple groups structural equation modeling). Our results suggest that black and Muslim individuals evaluate police-caused harm differently than do majority group members (white and Christian) on most, but not all, of the measured dimensions. We also find that those evaluations are predictive of trust and provide evidence of some level of consistency across communities.
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- 2021
4. Editorial: Advancing a Cross Boundary Social Science of Trust in Natural Resource Management
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Joseph A. Hamm, Dara M. Wald, and Kristina M. Slagle
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communication ,Political science ,vulnerability ,Communication. Mass media ,Vulnerability ,natural resouces management ,trust ,Natural resource management ,Environmental planning ,P87-96 ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Boundary (real estate) ,collaboration - Published
- 2021
5. An application of the integrated framework of legitimacy to the state courts context
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Joseph A. Hamm
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Sociology and Political Science ,Social Psychology ,State (polity) ,Perception ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Context (language use) ,Law ,Legitimacy ,Test (assessment) ,media_common ,Law and economics - Abstract
The current study uses data collected from defendants immediately after their hearings to test hypotheses regarding the relations among constructs relevant to perceptions of the state courts. Takin...
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- 2019
6. Risk, Stigma, Trustworthiness, and Citizen Participation—A Multifaceted Analysis of Media Coverage of Dioxin Contamination in Midland, Michigan
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Jie Zhuang, Brad L. Upham, Joseph A. Hamm, Adam Zwickle, Jeffrey G. Cox, and Minwoong Chung
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Risk ,Michigan ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Social Stigma ,lcsh:Medicine ,Stigma (botany) ,050801 communication & media studies ,Media coverage ,Dioxins ,Trust ,050905 science studies ,Article ,Newspaper ,Health problems ,0508 media and communications ,environmental stigma ,agenda setting ,Political science ,Agency (sociology) ,Humans ,Mass Media ,citizen participation ,News media ,health care economics and organizations ,business.industry ,health and environmental risk ,lcsh:R ,05 social sciences ,dioxin contamination ,Community Participation ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Newspapers as Topic ,Overtime ,Public relations ,trustworthiness ,Environmental Policy ,3. Good health ,Trustworthiness ,13. Climate action ,Environmental Pollutants ,0509 other social sciences ,Environmental Pollution ,business ,Attitude to Health ,Environmental Health - Abstract
In the United States, more than 200 communities are designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as areas of concern for dioxins. Informing the public about potential risks associated with dioxins and delivering information about how to avoid such risks are essential activities. News coverage of environmental and health problems affects how members of the public assess those problems in terms of both severity and how they are understood, as well as the extent of attention given to the problem by policy-makers. To contextualize public and institutional responses to dioxin contamination and remediation in a dioxin-affected community, we assessed 176 newspaper articles published over 30 years concerning dioxin contamination in Midland, Michigan, in terms of risk, trust in institutions, environmental stigma, and citizen participation. Articles about dioxin contamination and remediation in Midland appeared in both domestic and international newspapers. Domestically, both national and local newspapers covered this issue. The risks for human health and the environment caused by exposure to dioxins were widely covered, with much less media attention given to the trustworthiness of the organizations responsible for managing the risk, environmental stigma, and citizen participation. News coverage of these four themes also changed significantly overtime. Overall, our findings highlight the important role of local news media in communicating risk information, guiding safe behaviors, and facilitating community-level decision-making.
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- 2019
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7. Is Police Integrity an Important Predictor of Citizen Satisfaction in Police in Post-colonial Emerging Democracies? The Case of India
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Mahesh K. Nalla, Seung Yeop Paek, and Joseph A. Hamm
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business.industry ,Post colonial ,05 social sciences ,Citizen satisfaction ,Fear of crime ,Convenience sample ,Public relations ,0506 political science ,Political science ,050602 political science & public administration ,050501 criminology ,business ,Law ,0505 law - Abstract
The focus of this study is to examine citizen satisfaction with the police. Specifically, the authors aim to understand the factors that determine citizen satisfaction with police services in India, a former English colony and a relatively new republic that has achieved a significant economic development in recent decades. Findings from analysis of a convenience sample (N = 845) obtained from four Northern states in India suggest that perceived procedural fairness, fear of crime, and age of the respondents predict satisfaction with police services. Moreover, perceived professionalism of police officers is found to increase their perceived procedural fairness.
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- 2017
8. Fair Process, Trust, and Cooperation: Moving Toward an Integrated Framework of Police Legitimacy
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James D. Carr, Joseph A. Hamm, and Rick Trinkner
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Police legitimacy ,business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Law enforcement ,Procedural justice ,Public relations ,Public opinion ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Perception ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,050501 criminology ,business ,Law ,Social psychology ,050203 business & management ,General Psychology ,Legitimacy ,0505 law ,media_common ,Criminal justice - Abstract
Positive public perceptions are a critical pillar of the criminal justice system, but the literature addressing them often fails to offer clear advice regarding the important constructs or the relationships among them. The research reported here sought to take an important step toward this clarity by recruiting a national convenience sample to complete an online survey about the police in the respondent’s community, which included measures of the process-based model of legitimacy and the classic model of trust. Our results suggest that although both are predictive, the models can be integrated in a way that allows the strengths of each model to address the weaknesses of the other. We therefore present this model as a first step toward an Integrated Framework of Police Legitimacy that can meaningfully incorporate much of the existing scholarship and provide clearer guidance for those who seek to address these constructs in research and practice.
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- 2017
9. Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust
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Corwin D. Smidt, Roger C. Mayer, and Joseph A. Hamm
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Psychometrics ,Process (engineering) ,Thermometers ,Science Policy ,Science ,Political Science ,Immunology ,Social Sciences ,Equipment ,050109 social psychology ,Convenience sample ,Surveys ,Trust ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Politics ,Governments ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,050602 political science & public administration ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Humans ,Psychology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Public and Occupational Health ,Positive economics ,Measurement Equipment ,Research Integrity ,Multidisciplinary ,Survey Research ,05 social sciences ,Foundation (evidence) ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Vaccination and Immunization ,0506 political science ,Test (assessment) ,Scholarship ,Work (electrical) ,Research Design ,Government ,Medicine ,Engineering and Technology ,Preventive Medicine ,Construct (philosophy) ,Research Article ,Political Parties - Abstract
Political trust is a perennially important concern and the events of the last few years have, in many ways, heightened this importance. The relevant scholarship has done much to meet this challenge but continues to struggle with definitional unclarities and an inability to provide accounts that consistently operate as expected. The current research seeks to test the potential of a classic model of trust from the organizational sciences that makes specific arguments regarding the psychological nature and mechanisms of the construct in helping to address these concerns. Using data from a national convenience sample, we provide preliminary evidence which suggests that measures and models addressing this theoretical account of psychological trust form unidimensional and reliable measures that may more precisely explain the process of political trust and outperform current measures in predicting relevant correlates. We conclude by discussing the implications and limitations of our work and, in so doing, lay a foundation for a new research agenda for political trust.
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- 2018
10. The dimensionality of trust-relevant constructs in four institutional domains: results from confirmatory factor analyses
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Tess M. S. Neal, Mitchel N. Herian, Christopher D. Kimbrough, Lisa M. PytlikZillig, Ellie Shockley, Alan J. Tomkins, Brian H. Bornstein, and Joseph A. Hamm
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Best fitting ,Social Psychology ,Sociology and Political Science ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,Sample (statistics) ,Local governance ,Natural resource ,0506 political science ,Factor (chord) ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Construct (philosophy) ,Social psychology ,050203 business & management ,Applied Psychology ,Curse of dimensionality - Abstract
Using confirmatory factor analyses and multiple indicators per construct, we examined a number of theoretically derived factor structures pertaining to numerous trust-relevant constructs (from 9 to 12) across four institutional contexts (police, local governance, natural resources, state governance) and multiple participant-types (college students via an online survey, community residents as part of a city's budget engagement activity, a random sample of rural landowners, and a national sample of adult Americans via an Amazon Mechanical Turk study). Across studies, a number of common findings emerged. First, the best fitting models in each study maintained separate factors for each trust-relevant construct. Furthermore, post hoc analyses involving addition of higher-order factors tended to fit better than collapsing of factors. Second, dispositional trust was easily distinguishable from the other trust-related constructs, and positive and negative constructs were often distinguishable. However, th...
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- 2016
11. On the influence of trust in predicting rural land owner cooperation with natural resource management institutions
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Alan J. Tomkins, Lesa Hoffman, Joseph A. Hamm, and Brian H. Bornstein
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Social Psychology ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Rural land ,05 social sciences ,Public relations ,0506 political science ,Salient ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Natural resource management ,business ,Partial support ,Sophistication ,Competence (human resources) ,050203 business & management ,Applied Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Contemporary natural resource management (NRM) emphasises the role of the public in general and land owners in particular as voluntary participants in the process. Understanding the role of trust in voluntary cooperation is therefore critical, but the current state of the relevant literature is such that it fails to systematically address a few important issues. This inquiry sought to address these issues by presenting and testing a model of land owners’ trust in and cooperation with a NRM institution. The model hypothesises that the six major drivers of trust in this context (dispositional trust, care, competence, confidence, procedural fairness and salient values similarity) are distinct but correlated constructs that drive cooperation and whose effects are moderated by the sophistication (relevant knowledge and experience) of the trustor. The results provide complicated partial support for the hypotheses and suggest that (1) although the six constructs are separable, their effects on cooperation are no...
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- 2016
12. Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan
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Susan J. Woolford, Luther Evans, Kaneesha Wallace, Karen Calhoun, Joseph A. Hamm, Patricia Piechowski, De Waun E. Robinson, Athena McKay, Courtney Cuthbertson, Ismael Byers, Ella Greene-Moton, E. Yvonne Lewis, Sarah Bailey, Don Vereen, Arlene Sparks, Kent Key, Jennifer S. Carrera, and E. Hill DeLoney
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medicine.medical_specialty ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Community-based participatory research ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,lcsh:Social Sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Political science ,team science ,medicine ,environmental justice ,community-based participatory research ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Environmental justice ,030505 public health ,Community engagement ,Distrust ,business.industry ,Public health ,knowledge production ,General Social Sciences ,Public relations ,Focus group ,lcsh:H ,Psychological resilience ,0305 other medical science ,business ,qualitative research ,Qualitative research - Abstract
While the story of the Flint water crisis has frequently been told, even sympathetic analyses have largely worked to make invisible the significant actions of Flint residents to protect and advocate for their community. Leaving the voices of these stakeholders out of narratives about the crisis has served to deepen distrust in the community. Our project responds to these silences through a community-driven research study aimed explicitly at elevating the frame of Flint residents in and around the Flint water crisis. This paper describes the coming together of the research team, the overall project design for each of the three research efforts, and lessons learned. The three sub-projects include: (1) a qualitative analysis of community sentiment provided during 17 recorded legislative, media, and community events, (2) an analysis of trust in the Flint community through nine focus groups across demographic groups (African American, Hispanic, seniors, and youth) of residents in Flint, and (3) an analysis of the role of the faith-based community in response to public health crises through two focus groups with faith based leaders from Flint involved with response efforts to the water crisis. Our study offers insight for understanding trust in crisis, which could be valuable to other communities and researchers seeking to address similar situations. The project offers community science as a model for considering community engagement in research as part of the process of resilience.
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- 2019
13. Deconstructing public confidence in state courts
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Alan J. Tomkins, Lisa M. PytlikZillig, Lesa Hoffman, Mitchel N. Herian, Brian H. Bornstein, and Joseph A. Hamm
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Social Psychology ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public confidence ,Public institution ,Public relations ,Structural equation modeling ,Cynicism ,State (polity) ,Political science ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Obligation ,business ,Social psychology ,Applied Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Although researchers have consistently demonstrated the importance of confidence in public institutions like the courts, relatively little attention has been paid to understanding what confidence itself really is. This article presents data from two samples of community members, thereby building on and extending a preliminary investigation that sought to understand constructs related to confidence in state courts with student samples. Structural equation modelling results provide support for the dimensionality of the measures and indicate that dispositional trust has little to no independent effect on confidence. However, tendency to trust in governmental institutions, cynicism toward the law and felt obligation to obey the law are important predictive constructs. The current results are important both for researchers seeking to understand confidence in the courts and the judges and administrators who would seek to increase it.
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- 2013
14. On the Cross-Domain Scholarship of Trust in the Institutional Context
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Joseph A. Hamm, Twila Wingrove, Christina Breuer, Jooho Lee, Rick Trinkner, and Steve Leben
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Scholarship ,Leverage (finance) ,business.industry ,Political science ,Mainstream ,Trust building ,Public relations ,Willingness to accept ,business - Abstract
As argued throughout this volume, trust matters. This importance has spawned a number of major contemporary efforts to increase trust in numerous domains. These efforts typically seek to leverage the best available science for understanding and motivating trust but it is, as yet, not well understood to what degree trust is essentially the same or importantly different across the various domains. Trust building efforts are, therefore, often left with little guidance as to the critical issues to address when applying work from other domains. This chapter takes up this deficiency by reviewing the major mainstream conceptualizations, antecedents, and outcomes of trust in four domains: public administration, policing, state courts, and medicine. The chapter concludes that trust is in fact notably similar across domains but that there are critical differences to be attended to. Specifically, we argue that trust across contexts can be thought of as a willingness to accept vulnerability in dealings with an "other" but that the most important drivers of that willingness are likely to vary somewhat as a function of the domain.
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- 2016
15. Navigating Natural Resource Management Conflicts Fairly: State Authorities, Land Owners, and Procedural Fairness
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Joseph A. Hamm
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business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Face (sociological concept) ,Context (language use) ,Public relations ,Natural resource ,Variety (cybernetics) ,State (polity) ,Perception ,Political science ,Natural resource management ,business ,media_common - Abstract
Natural resources management in the United States is a complicated endeavor and, although a variety of institutions are involved, most day to day management falls to state natural resource authorities. Given the large percentage of private land in some states and the often opposing interests of the parties, these authorities’ efforts often put them in conflict with land owners. Navigating these conflicts well is important for the effective and efficient management of natural resources in the US and the current paper applies the social science of procedural fairness to identify three critical concerns that should be attended to in these conflicts: (1) the reason for the importance of perceived procedural fairness lies in its ability to signal that the individual is valued in the process, (2) voice in the process and the ability to influence the decision are critical components of perceived procedural fairness in this context, (3) the perception of procedural fairness will be most important in the face of uncertainty.
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- 2014
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