{"id":394,"date":"2021-05-27T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/?page_id=394"},"modified":"2021-05-28T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:34:23","slug":"carrie-levan-montgoris-family-assistant-professor-of-government","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/carrie-levan-montgoris-family-assistant-professor-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie LeVan, Montgoris Family Assistant Professor of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Neighborhoods and Neighbors in Communities of Color<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project will examine how the design features (i.e. presence of gridded streets, sidewalks, treelined streets, porches, green space, etc.) of majority-minority neighborhoods affects the social and political behavior of the people who live there.&nbsp; I have been a member of a collective of scholars who has released a national survey (Collaborative Multiracial Post-Elections Survey\u2014CMPS) that oversamples Black, Latino(a)(x), and Asian respondents and provides each respondent\u2019s census tract.&nbsp; To this survey, I would like to add measurements of each respondent\u2019s neighborhood design. My summer research assistants would be asked to help me code these features.&nbsp; We would locate each census tract in Google Street View and code the presence\/absence of architectural features that scholars have argued help improve civic, social, economic, and physical well-being. &nbsp;This will be a large data collection project.&nbsp; I am hoping to code at least a thousand unique census tracts and dozens of features for each one.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary questions of this project asks:&nbsp; How does the built environment affect the political behavior (i.e. attitudes, participation, opinions) of People of Color?&nbsp; Are People of Color who live in neighborhoods with an interactive design more likely to talk with their neighbors, more likely to vote, more likely to volunteer?&nbsp; Are they more likely to be satisfied with their neighborhood, happier with life, more trusting of government, display higher political efficacy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to answer these questions, I first need to code the design of respondents\u2019 neighborhoods. The summer RA program will help me accomplish this task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neighborhoods and Neighbors in Communities of Color This project will examine how the design features (i.e. presence of gridded streets, sidewalks, treelined streets, porches, green space, etc.) of majority-minority neighborhoods affects the social and political behavior of the people who live there.&nbsp; I have been a member of a collective of scholars who has released &#8230; <a title=\"Carrie LeVan, Montgoris Family Assistant Professor of Government\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/carrie-levan-montgoris-family-assistant-professor-of-government\/\" aria-label=\"More on Carrie LeVan, Montgoris Family Assistant Professor of Government\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mcvey-data-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}