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Linda Young-Demarco

Linda Young-DeMarco

Linda Young-DeMarco is a Lead Research Area Specialist with extensive longitudinal research project management experience. Her expertise includes project conceptualization, construct and measurement development, design and preparation of open ended survey materials, survey questionnaire design, interviewer training, design, implementation, and supervision of data management activities, design and direction of archival activities, contributions to the conceptualization of data analyses, design and execution of data analyses, and collaboration in the authorship of substantive peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters. She has been project manager and collaborator with researchers at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research on numerous international research projects that focus on development and people’s ideational beliefs concerning development around the world.

Publications

Allendorf, Keera, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Arland Thornton. 2022. “Developmental Idealism and a Half-Century of Family Attitude Trends in the United States”. Sociology of Development. Published online, September 13, 2022.

Thornton, Arland, Jeffrey Swindle, Prem B. Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Nathalie Williams, and Christina Hughes. 2020. "Developmental Idealism and Migration: Theorizing their Relationship and an Empirical Example from Nepal." PSC Research Report No. 20-895. 5 2020.

Gordner, Jillian, Arland Thornton, and Linda Young-DeMarco. 2022. “Names Used Among Native Americans at the Colville Indian Agency: Perspectives from the 1885 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census”. Journal of Northwest Anthropology. 56(1): 3-43, Spring 2022.

Thornton, Arland, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Prem B. Bhandari. 2019. "The Reliability and Stability of Measures of Individuals' Values and Beliefs Concerning Developmental Idealism in Nepal." Sociology of Development, 5(3): 314-336. 

Allendorf, Keera, Arland Thornton, Colter Mitchell, and Linda Young-DeMarco. 2019. "The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Marital Attitudes, Expectations, and Timing." Journal of Family Issues, 40(17): 2359-2388.

Thornton, Arland, Shawn F. Dorius, Jeffrey Swindle, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel. 2017. "Middle Eastern Beliefs about the Causal Linkages of Development to Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights." Sociology of Development, 70(94): 70-94

Thornton, Arland, Kathryn M. Yount, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel. 2017. "Modernization, World System, and Clash of Civilization Perspectives in Lay Views of the Development- Morality Nexus in the United States and the Middle East." In Values, Political Action, and Change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Michele J. Gelfand. Chapter 4. Oxford University Press.

Yount, Kathryn M., Arland Thornton, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Shilpa N. Patel. 2017. "Lay Accounts of "Modern" and "Traditional" Family in Greater Cairo: A Test of Developmental Models of Family Life." In Values, Political Action, and Change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Michele J. Gelfand. Chapter 5. Oxford University Press.

Melegh, Attila, Tamás Kiss, Sabina Csánóová, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Arland Thornton. 2016. "The perception of global hierarchies: South-Eastern European patterns in comparative perspectives." Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2(4): 497-523.

Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Linda Young-DeMarco, Colter Mitchell, Kathryn M. Yount, and Yu Xie. 2016. "Evaluating the measurement reliabilities and dimensionality of developmental idealism measures." Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2(4): 609-635.

Thornton, Arland, Rachael Pierotti, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Susan Watkins. 2014. "Developmental Idealism and Cultural Models of the Family in Malawi." Population Research and Policy Review, 33(5): 693-716.

Melegh, Attila, Arland Thornton, Dimiter Philipov, and Linda Young-DeMarco. 2013. "Perceptions of societal developmental hierarchies in Europe and beyond: A Bulgarian Perspective." European Sociological Review, 29(3): 603-615.

Thornton, Arland, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2012. "Views of the Interrelationships of the Dimensions of Developmental Idealism and Family Life: Evidence from Nepal." PSC Research Report No. 12-778. October 2012.

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