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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION:
A SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PLACE-CONTEXT
EFFECTS
IN LOS ANGELES MAYORAL ELECTIONS
by
Jason Alan McDaniel
Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLITICAL SCIENCE)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Jason Alan McDaniel
Object Description
| Title | Location, location, location: a spatial econometric analysis of place-context effects in Los Angeles mayoral elections |
| Author | McDaniel, Jason Alan |
| Author email | jasonamcdaniel@mac.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Science |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-08-29 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-11-14 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Wong, Janelle |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Ethington, Philip J. Barnes, John E. |
| Abstract | Scholars of voting behavior are increasingly turning to the contextual environment for explanations for why people vote they way they do. Many scholars, particularly those that are concerned with racial/ethnic and urban voting, are unsatisfied with analysis that treats individual voters as isolated from their social networks of friends, family, and neighbors. I argue that the concept of context and contextual effects should be connected to particular places, such as urban neighborhoods. As a theoretical foundation for this argument, I develop the concept of place-context. Place-context channels the flow of political information and stimuli that influence voting behavior.; I investigate the debates concerning the best methodological techniques for the study of place-context effects. Given the widely acknowledged problems associated with survey research and racially polarized voting, I use spatially located aggregate data; the dependent variables of interest percentage vote choice in each census tract by each of four racial groups are estimated via a geographically weighted approach to ecological inference that allows spatial dynamics to be take into account. The estimated data are examined with spatial econometric methods that allow for the visualization and modeling of behavioral diffusion through space.; The Los Angeles mayoral elections in 2001 and 2005, both of which involved James Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa, are analyzed for place-context effects on the voting behavior of four racial groups. The findings indicate the presence of many instances of neighborhood effects whereby voters were affected by the diffusion of behavior from their neighbors. Additionally, the dynamics of racial group cooperation and conflict, as expressed through voting, is examined. The findings suggest that place and racial context interact at the neighborhood level, such that, instead of general findings of either conflict or cooperation, instead the results indicate the existence of complex patterns of both cooperation and conflict diffusing through space from neighborhood to neighborhood. |
| Keyword | Los Angeles; place; contextual effects; voting behavior |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | circa 2001/2005 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m923 |
| Rights | McDaniel, Jason Alan |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-McDaniel-20071114 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-McDaniel-20071114.pdf |
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| Full text | LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: A SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PLACE-CONTEXT EFFECTS IN LOS ANGELES MAYORAL ELECTIONS by Jason Alan McDaniel Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICAL SCIENCE) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Jason Alan McDaniel |
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