@article{jicha_kick_fulkerson_thompson_2019, title={Explaining Social Capital Formation in a Hinterlands Context: The Case of Carriacou, Grenada}, volume={18}, ISSN={["1569-1330"]}, DOI={10.1163/15691330-12341487}, abstractNote={Abstract Strong supportive organizations and interpersonal networks are taken to be instrumental for increasing social groups’ ability to actuate collective interests and build problem-solving capacity. Primary survey data from the island hinterlands area of Carriacou, Grenada, are used to test how key determinants of social capital in developed nations – supportive organizational efficacy, civic organization participation, social interaction, and socio-demographic characteristics – influence the normative dimension of social capital in a developing setting. Results indicate that perceptions of government efficacy and education enhance both measures of social capital in this island hinterland, while different indicators of social interaction display independent influences on each. This study concludes that hinterland settings such as Carriacou exhibit significantly different causes of social capital formation than found in other sectors of the world system.}, number={1}, journal={COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY}, author={Jicha, Karl and Kick, Edward and Fulkerson, Gregory and Thompson, Gretchen}, year={2019}, pages={33–65} }
 @article{l. kick_zering_classen_2017, title={Approaches to agricultural innovation and their effectiveness}, volume={2}, ISSN={2471-2086}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/agrfood.2017.4.370}, DOI={10.3934/agrfood.2017.4.370}, number={4}, journal={AIMS Agriculture and Food}, publisher={American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)}, author={L. Kick, Edward and Zering, Kelly and Classen, John}, year={2017}, pages={370–373} }
 @article{mckinney_kick_cannon_2015, title={A human ecology approach to environmental inequality: A county-level analysis of natural disasters and the distribution of landfills in the southeastern United States}, volume={21}, DOI={10.22459/her.21.01.2015.05}, abstractNote={Author(s): McKinney, L; Kick, E; Cannon, C | Abstract: One underexplored area of great concern is the relationship between disasters and disposition of the waste they generate, which often amounts to the equivalent of 5 to 15 years of garbage that the same community would create under normal conditions. This paper develops a theoretical framework to analyze the factors that influence the distribution of landfills by integrating insights gained from the environmental inequality and human ecology traditions. The synthesis informs the quantitative analysis of the distribution of landfills across counties in the southeastern region of the United States by examining crucial associated variables, disasters, and other relevant factors gleaned from prior research. Findings suggest that natural disasters have indirect relationships with other communities that process waste. Results also point to the disproportionate concentration of landfills in counties with greater minority populations. The conclusions and implications of the findings are discussed in addition to a range of potential applications for future research.}, number={1}, journal={Human Ecology Review}, author={McKinney, L. and Kick, E. and Cannon, C.}, year={2015}, pages={109–132} }
 @article{kick_mckinney_2014, title={Global Context, National Interdependencies, and the Ecological Footprint: A Structural Equation Analysis}, volume={57}, ISSN={["1533-8673"]}, DOI={10.1177/0731121414523568}, abstractNote={This paper develops a theoretical integration and estimates an associated structural equation model of the ecological footprints of nations. The ecological footprint is an approximation of environmental pressure on natural resources that stems from production, consumption, and the resultant disposal of waste. We use structural equation modeling techniques to test an integrative perspective based on direct and indirect effects, taken from human ecology, ecological economics, modernization, and political economy approaches, as well as from the natural sciences. We find evidence for the conjuncture of many of the theories investigated and for contextualizing the footprint in a global network of causes. The model raises questions about conclusions reached in prior analyses based on direct effects only. The significant roles played by natural and economic forces suggest a need to attend to multidisciplinary dynamics. With the exception of “weak sustainability,” the indirect and direct impacts suggest ever-escalating levels of the footprints of nations.}, number={2}, journal={SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES}, author={Kick, Edward L. and McKinney, Laura A.}, year={2014}, pages={256–279} }
 @article{fraser_kick_2014, title={Governing urban restructuring with city-building nonprofits}, volume={46}, ISSN={["1472-3409"]}, DOI={10.1068/a46169}, abstractNote={Urban restructuring efforts aimed at redeveloping inner-city neighborhoods are common across the US. They typically involve coalitions of public and private actors that play complementary roles in promoting investments in locales that have been sites of disinvestment, rendering these geographies ripe for economic development and profitmaking (ie, gentrification). Nonprofits are not generally regarded as central players in these initiatives, although they often serve community-development functions for low-income populations living in impoverished city spaces. In this paper we draw on the concept of the shadow state and Foucault's theory of governmentality to examine a city-building nonprofit created by a public–private growth coalition to execute the redevelopment of urban space and, as an integral part, manage neighborhood resident participation in these efforts. As residents began to see themselves as agents of neighborhood change, they came into conflict with the revitalization objectives of the nonprofit's funders. And, while many residents actively challenged the direction that the neighborhood initiative took in focusing on housing redevelopment for more affluent populations, a core group maintained their commitment to a community building approach toward neighborhood redevelopment. Between 1998 and 2014, during CIC's initiative, over half of the original residents were displaced or left as neighborhood housing values dramatically increased, rendering the area inaccessible for low-income populations.}, number={6}, journal={ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE}, author={Fraser, James C. and Kick, Edward L.}, year={2014}, pages={1445–1461} }
 @article{kentor_jorgenson_kick_2012, title={The "new" military and income inequality: A cross national analysis}, volume={41}, ISSN={["1096-0317"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.12.005}, abstractNote={Military expenditures have escalated over the last three decades in both developed and less developed countries, without a corresponding expansion of military personnel. Spending has instead been directed towards hi-tech weaponry, what we refer to as the “new” military. We hypothesize that this new, increasingly capital-intensive military is no longer a pathway of upward mobility or employer of last resort for many uneducated, unskilled, or unemployed people, with significant consequences for those individuals and society as a whole. One such consequence, we argue, is an increase in income inequality. We test this hypothesis with cross-national panel models, estimated for 82 developed and less developed countries from 1970 to 2000. Findings indicate that military capital-intensiveness, as measured by military expenditures per soldier, exacerbates income inequality net of control variables. Neither total military expenditures/GDP nor military participation has a significant effect. It appears from these findings that today’s “new” military establishment is abrogating its historical role as an equalizing force in society, with important policy implications.}, number={3}, journal={SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH}, author={Kentor, Jeffrey and Jorgenson, Andrew K. and Kick, Edward}, year={2012}, month={May}, pages={514–526} }
 @article{kick_mckinney_thompson_2011, title={Intensity of food deprivation: The integrative impacts of the world system, modernization, conflict, militarization and the environment}, volume={52}, ISSN={["1745-2554"]}, DOI={10.1177/0020715211428181}, abstractNote={US and world military expenditures have increased dramatically in the last decade. Some cross-national treatments identify positive impacts of military spending on a range of domestic outcomes, while many others point to the converse. We review the literature and then focus on under examined relationships, including the impact of military expenditures on the intensity of food deprivation worldwide. We employ a structural equation modeling technique that permits synthetic analyses of direct and indirect impacts of a range of factors specified by the theories. We find world-system context indirectly matters a great deal to the intensity of food deprivation in nations, both in our sample of developed and developing nations, and of developing countries only. So do intra-national and international conflicts, especially insofar as they impact national modernization and military spending. While modernization is moderately enhanced by military spending for our cross-national sample of developed and developing countries, it is not for the sample of developing countries only. This may point to military technology’s spill over effects on other sectors of the economy, but solely for developed nations. For the world over, national modernization, itself a consequence of global power and dependency, directly reduces the intensity of food deprivation, while military expenditures directly heighten it. These differential relationships lead us to advocate for a more synthetic theorizing in studies of food security and hunger, while accounting for global circumstances that produce both similar and different consequences in richer and poorer countries.}, number={6}, journal={INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY}, author={Kick, Edward L. and McKinney, Laura A. and Thompson, Gretchen H.}, year={2011}, month={Dec}, pages={478–502} }
 @article{kick_fraser_fulkerson_mckinney_de vries_2011, title={Repetitive flood victims and acceptance of FEMA mitigation offers: an analysis with community-system policy implications}, volume={35}, ISSN={["1467-7717"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1467-7717.2011.01226.x}, abstractNote={Of all natural disasters, flooding causes the greatest amount of economic and social damage. The United States' Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses a number of hazard mitigation grant programmes for flood victims, including mitigation offers to relocate permanently repetitive flood loss victims. This study examines factors that help to explain the degree of difficulty repetitive flood loss victims experience when they make decisions about relocating permanently after multiple flood losses. Data are drawn from interviews with FEMA officials and a survey of flood victims from eight repetitive flooding sites. The qualitative and quantitative results show the importance of rational choices by flood victims in their mitigation decisions, as they relate to financial variables, perceptions of future risk, attachments to home and community, and the relationships between repetitive flood loss victims and the local flood management officials who help them. The results offer evidence to suggest the value of a more community–system approach to FEMA relocation practices.}, number={3}, journal={DISASTERS}, author={Kick, Edward L. and Fraser, James C. and Fulkerson, Gregory M. and McKinney, Laura A. and De Vries, Daniel H.}, year={2011}, month={Jul}, pages={510–539} }
 @article{kick_2011, title={The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century}, volume={117}, ISSN={["0002-9602"]}, DOI={10.1086/662223}, number={2}, journal={AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY}, author={Kick, Edward L.}, year={2011}, month={Sep}, pages={683–685} }
 @article{mckinney_fulkerson_kick_2009, title={Investigating the correlates of biodiversity loss: A cross-national quantitative analysis of threatened bird species}, volume={16}, number={1}, journal={Human Ecology Review}, author={McKinney, L. A. and Fulkerson, G. M. and Kick, E. L.}, year={2009}, pages={103–113} }
 @article{fraser_kick_2007, title={The role of public, private, non-profit and community sectors in shaping mixed-income housing outcomes in the US}, volume={44}, ISSN={["1360-063X"]}, DOI={10.1080/00420980701540952}, abstractNote={Since the 1990s, public policy-makers in the US have renewed support for mixed-income housing development as a means towards inner-city neighbourhood revitalisation and poverty amelioration. Yet, research to date finds that, while these mixed-income developments have promoted neighbourhood revitalisation, they have accomplished less for people in these areas who live in poverty. This paper theorises about the conditions that may in principle lead to these alternative outcomes. The approach emphasises the continuity in goal sets and capacities among four sets of urban actors—investors, local government, non-profits and community residents. To examine extant theory and an alternative model, case study evidence is offered from two comparable cities with different mixed-income initiatives and different configurations of goals and capacities among the four stakeholder groups. It is found that place-based outcomes (i.e. neighbourhood revitalisation) from mixed-income efforts hinge on the continuity of goals and effective capacities of investors, government and non-profits, but not community residents. It is also found that, with or without goal consonance and capacity, existing residents are relatively underserved by mixed-income initiatives while other stakeholders realise a variety of benefits.}, number={12}, journal={URBAN STUDIES}, author={Fraser, James C. and Kick, Edward L.}, year={2007}, pages={2357–2377} }
 @article{kick_davis_kentor_2006, title={A cross-national analysis of militarization and inequality}, volume={34}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Political and Military Sociology}, author={Kick, E. L. and Davis, B. and Kentor, J.}, year={2006}, pages={319–337} }
 @book{andrew jorgenson_kick_2006, title={Globalization and the environment}, DOI={10.5195/jwsr.2003.243}, abstractNote={Human societies have long experienced the increasingly rapid expansion of the modern world-economy; an economy that has existed since at least the middle 1400s, meeting crisis after crisis in accumulation (e.g.Abu-Lughod 1989; Arrighi 1994; Chase-Dunn 1998; Chase-Dunn and Hall 1997; Chew 2001; Frank 1978, 1998; Frank and Gills 1993; Kentor 2000; Moore 2003; Pomeranz 2000; Wallerstein 1974, 1979). Rapid technological growth has been part and parcel of this expansion that has tightened the global division of labor and importance of distant events for all humans. This division of labor permits further expansion in rationalized production, and it reaches everywhere to expand markets and offer up cheap labor and material resources to increase surplus value ( e.g. Marx 1906; see also Foster 1999, 2002; Harvey 1999).}, publisher={Leiden ;|aBoston: Brill}, author={Andrew Jorgenson and Kick, Edward}, year={2006} }
 @article{kick_fraser_davis_2006, title={Performance management, managerial citizenship and worker commitment: A study of the United States postal service with some global implications}, volume={27}, ISSN={["1461-7099"]}, DOI={10.1177/0143831X06060594}, abstractNote={This exploratory study of the US Postal Service examines worker perceptions of ‘management citizenship’ in a high performance workplace, and assesses the impact of management citizenship on worker commitment. Qualitative data from employee narratives show many workers view performance management practices as unjust and at a disjuncture with perceived organizational and broader societal goals. Especially salient are issues of worker voice, equity and the non-universalistic treatment of employees by managers. Worker perceptions vary across race and gender. Effects of such perceptions on the organizational commitment of workers have been insuf.ciently studied, but regression analyses show that net of other predictors, worker perceptions of management citizenship are consequential to organizational commitment, as are the intersection of their gender and race for black women, and worker views of workplace heterogeneity, colleague citizenship and personal citizenship in the organization. The implications of these .ndings are drawn out generally and globally, with a focus on ameliorative management citizenship strategies.}, number={1}, journal={ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY}, author={Kick, EL and Fraser, JC and Davis, BL}, year={2006}, month={Feb}, pages={137–172} }