Steven Rathgeb Smith’s scientific contributions

... • The primary predictor, political ideology, is measured as the extent to which a jurisdiction is dominated by rightwing ideology. 4 Studies relying on general measures of political sentiment favoring less government intervention or indirect demographic proxies (e.g., income, race) were excluded (e.g., Ferris, 1986;Hefetz & Warner, 2012;Stein, 1990), as they might not directly capture political ideology. ...

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Does political ideology still matter? A meta‐analysis of government contracting decisions

... In addition to the vision of state intervention (Daly;Cobb, 1989;Pearce;Turner, 1990) and the perspective of market logic (Anderson;Leal, 1990) as a regulatory mechanism for the appropriation and use of natural resources, there is a third institutional preference to drive the transition process towards a sustainable society. Civil society -through its community organizations, grassroots groups, social movements and non-governmental organizations -must build the predominant direction in the transformation to a sustainable society. ...

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The Institutionalization of Environmental Discourse: an Analysis of the History of International Conferences