Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Whether demonstrated by his status as a �repeat player� before the justices, his official representation of the U.S. government, or the influence of his involvement in specific cases, much of the literature on the Solicitor General emphasizes his �special relationship� with the Supreme Court. The reapportionment cases of the Court�s 1963 Term demonstrate that Solicitor General Archibald Cox did not benefit from this relationship; he was not, as Lincoln Caplan has described holders of that office, a �Tenth Justice�.
Commensurate with Solicitor General tradition, Cox sought to protect the legitimacy of the Court by advocating an end to judicial involvement in the �political thicket� of legislative reapportionment. However, an analysis of the crafting of the government�s brief in Lucas v. Colorado General Assembly (1964) shows that Cox could not rely on his professional status to achieve this goal. Firstly, while the Kennedy Administration shared his views, it did so for policy-based rather than rule of law reasons. Secondly, the Warren Court, post-1962, did not share the Solicitor General�s concern for its institutional welfare. In theory, as Solicitor General Archibald Cox enjoyed a special relationship with the Supreme Court; in reality, what this relationship allowed him to accomplish was contingent upon the wider institutional context within which the Solicitor General is situated.

Publication Type: Individual Paper
Abstract: Black scholars, theorists, revolutionaries, activists and �ordinary people� have been exploring, dialoging and arguing about the complicated relationships between race and class in Black America for well over a century. Oliver Cox, University of Chicago educated Black sociologist, the person with much to say, has become the forgotten man in these debates. The illuminating works of Cox (1901-1974) somehow are overlooked. Cox�s magnum opus, Caste Class and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948) was heralded by many as a major contribution. Additionally, his major works include Capitalism as a System (1948), Foundations of Capitalism (1959) and Race Relations: Elements and Social Dynamics (1976).

Cox�s writings on race, class and caste are encyclopedic. His inquiries include data from many countries of the world. He looked at various historical periods. He wrote about theory and practice. His work connects to that of that of E. Franklin Frazier, Harold Cruse, Willard Gatewood, Ricky Jones and others.

While the full scope of his work is far too broad for this project, I hope, by reviewing his work, to get at the essential Cox. How can Cox contribute to our understanding of the racialized Black middle class in America? How might we politicize and problemitize race and class in meaningful ways? How do we deepen our analysis of how race and class intersect?

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Oliver Cox did a statistical study on the marital trends of Negroes (African Americans) in 1938 and found that the sex ratio and male employment status of a given area could predict the marriage rates for said area. His findings are very similar to present sociological literature on African American marital trends. He is not, however, credited for his foundational role in the genesis of the theory of the marriageable male.

He was a student in the Chicago School of Sociology during the tenure of many of the school�s most prominent faculty. Many of these leading faculty members were also his instructors in addition to presiding as president of the American Sociological Association at some point in their careers. Despite his connection to these powerful sociologists, Cox was relegated to the margins of his discipline. He has been successfully hidden from the cannon of marriageable male research.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Cox and McCubbins (2005) first commandment is “Thou shalt not aid bills that will split thy party.” However, if followed religiously it typically leads to the destruction of the partisan majority the partisan cartel is meant to empower and protect.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Missing data is a prevalent problem in data analysis. Most previous studies on missing data focus on ad hoc methods such as complete case analysis, available case analysis, unconditional mean imputation, conditional regression mean imputation, hot deck imputation, cold deck imputation and stochastic regression imputation. The use of these conventional methods in handling missing data can lead to serious problems.
This paper is motivated by the problems some scholars encountered in the study of adolescents� relationship stability. In the present paper, we are interested in comparing the performance of multiple imputation techniques in the context of a Cox regression model with either a restrictive or an inclusive strategy via a Monte Carlo analysis.
We find that all the multiple imputation methods outperform the complete case analysis across all the experimental conditions either using a restrictive or an inclusive strategy. Among all the MI methods, the MI method with a restrictive strategy performs as well as the MI method with an inclusive strategy in the sense that both strategies have similar level of dispersion around the population value. The MI methods are quite robust under the violation of the missing at random assumption and in the presence of a less generous imputation model.

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