Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Modern Couples, Sharing Money, Sharing Life is the result of a five-year-long collaboration of sociologists in three countries: Sweden, Spain, and the United States. In-depth, extended interviews with couples exploring many aspects of their daily lives provide significant insights into the impact of modernity, gender roles, and expectations concerning the meaning of money and the complex financial reality of households.

Publication Type: Roundtable
Abstract: This roundtable explores the ways that computer-mediated discussion groups, which are neither time nor location dependent, support pre-service and beginning teachers during their first full-time experiences in P-12 classrooms.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper examines the relation between shared cognition and shared social identity, and the influence of these two variables on negotiation productivity. Three studies showed that both shared cognition and identification with an overarching group are associated with better negotiation outcomes. Moreover, clear links exist between the development of shared cognition and shared identity (Study 1). Stronger identification before negotiation was associated with the development of shared cognition during negotiation (Study 2). Conversely, a direct manipulation of shared cognition resulted in greater identification (Study 3). Thus, as predicted by self-categorization theory, shared social identity can be both the product of, and precursor to, the development of shared cognition (Turner, 1991), with communication functioning as the interface between the two.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: While much of the international relations literature has focused on the conflictgenerating potential of river use disputes, we focus on the politics of cooperation. Our theoretical framework investigates the demand, catalytic, and inhibiting influences on whether the riparian countries will enter into general and water supply river-managing treaties. Empirical results for the 1900-93 time period reveal that economic development (a demand factor), democracy, and common IGO memberships (catalysts) increase the chances for a treaty, while the lack of common security interests and balanced power configurations act as inhibiting factors. The demand and catalyst variables exercise substantially more influence, giving support to the rarely examined argument that factors associated with Kantian peace not only help states avoid militarized confrontations but also help foster positive peace. In the water supply context, however, the power dynamics given by the up/downstream river pattern cripple the possibility for the treaty. Our findings indicate that optimistic predictions expecting a rise in Third World river cooperation are largely unwarranted.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In the past decade, national reporting provisions and other calls for governmental openness have become an inherent part of a number of contemporary policy processes, from arms control and disarmament to the economy and environmental protection. Their sta