Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory in Spatial Demography

With a unique focus on middle-range theory, this book details the application of spatial analysis to demographic research as a way of integrating and better understanding the different transitional components of the overall demographic transition.

Introduction: Chapter 1. Recapturing Spatial Approaches to Social Science Problems: Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter and Stephen Mathews.- Part I. Theory, Concept, and Measures: Chapter 2. Challenges of Spatial Thinking: John R. Logan, Brown University.- Chapter 3. Extending the Boundaries of Place: Carlos Siordia and Stephen A. Matthews.- Chapter 4. Using Place-and Person-Based Interventions to Measure Neighborhood E¿ects: Noli Brazil.- Chapter 5. From aspatial to spatial, from global to local and individual: Are we on the right track to spatialize segregation measures?: David W. Wong.- Chapter 6. Demography Is an Inherently Spatial Science: John R. Weeks.- Part II. Research Practice in Spatial Demography: Chapter 7. Modeling 'Dependence of Relevant Alternatives' in Consumer Choice: A Synthesis From Disparate Literatures: Lee Rivers Mobley and Gloria Bazzoli.- Chapter 8. Bringing Together Spatial Demography and Political Science: Reexamining The Big Sort: David Darmofal and Ryan Strickler.- Part III. Middle Range Theory in Application: Chapter 9. Demography and Democracy: Exploring the linkage between age and voter turnout in Italy with geospatial analysis: Michael Shin and John Agnew.- Chapter 10. A Spatial Decomposition of County Population Growth in the United States: Population Redistribution in the Rural-to-Urban Continuum, 1980-2010: Jeremy R. Porter and Frank M. Howell.- Chapter 11. Socio-spatial holes in the advocacy umbrella: The spatial diffusion of risk and network response among environmental organizations in the Marcellus hydro-fracturing region: Michael Irwin and Erin Pischke.- Chapter 12. American Civic Community over Space and Time: Charles Tolbert, F. Carson Menken, Troy Blanchard and Jing Li.- Chapter 13. Revisiting the Rural Paradox in US Counties with Spatial Durbin Modeling: Tse-Chuan Yang, Aggie J. Noah and Carla Shoff.- Chapter 14. Race, place, and space: Ecosocial theory and spatiotemporal patternsof pregnancy outcomes: Michael R. Kramer.- Chapter 15. Using Nighttime lights Data as a Proxy in Social Scientific Research: Xi Chen.- Chapter 16. Human Migration and Spatial Synchrony: Spatial Patterns in Temporal Trends: Daniel M. Parker.- Part IV. Instruction in Spatial Demography and Concluding Remarks: Chapter 17. Instruction in Spatial Demography: Stephen A. Mathews.- Chapter 18. Concluding Remarks: Developing Spatial Demography: Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter and Stephen A. Mathews.- Bibliography.