Authors’ Corrections

• Published date: 01 June 2003
• Date: 01 June 2003
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591290305600212
• Subject Matter: Articles

Authors’ Corrections

ELAINE B. SHARP

“CULTURE, INSTITUTIONS,AND URBAN OFFICIALS’ RESPONSES TO MORALITY ISSUES”

In Vol. 55, No. 4 (December 2002): pp. 874-875, the first paragraph under RESULTS should read:

RESULTS

Table 3 shows ordered logit analysis results with all hypothesized predictors. Although issue type, as expected, is an impor-

tant predictor of governmental action, the results for the measure of community culture/demand are disappointing. White the

coefficients for church membership (for decency incidents) and gay prevalence (for gay incidents) are in the hypothesized

direction and significant or near significant, the index of unconventional culture, the interaction term designating the impact

of unconventionalism contingent on issue type, and the indicator of community demand specific to abortion incidents are all

statistically insignificant. The table suggests a divergence in the direct effects of the . . . .

≡TABLE 3

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF CITY OFFICIALS’ ACTION ON MORALITY ISSUESa

[in original] [corrected]

Coefficient (sig.) Coefficient (sig.)

Issue Type .9572 (.000) .8535 (.001)

Chief Executiveb–7950 (.001) –.7914 (.001)

Council Electionsc.2164 (.358) .2215 (.354)

Unconventionalism .1429 (.169) .1801 (.070)

Unconventionalism * Issue Type –.0607 (.450) –.0348 (.654)

%Church Members * Decency Dummy .0494 (.000) .0499 (.000)

Gay Prevalence * Gay Rights Dummy .2204 (.025) .0511 (.063)

Fundamental or Catholic * Abortion Incident –.0119 (.251) –.0113 (.274)

N = 317 N= 317

Pseudo R2= 0.19 Pseudo R2= 0.18

aFigures presented are ordered logit coefficients with associated significance levels shown in parentheses. The dependent variable is the ordinal scale of city

officials’ actions in morality issue incidents (the latter coded from 1 for repression to 5 for entrepreneurial instigation).

bCoded 0 if city manager; 1 if mayor.

cCoded 0 if at-large; 1 if ward.

MICHAEL BAILEY

, LEE SIGELMAN, CLYDE WILCOX

“PRESIDENTIAL PERSUASION ON SOCIAL ISSUES: A TWO-WAY STREET?”

In Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 2003): p.51, second paragraph under Statistical Model, the two equations should read:

Gay Military1992 =b1Clinton1992 +g1_1992 +e1(1)

Clinton1992 =b2Gay Military1992 +g2X1992 +e2(2)