Accolades: Susan Coleman, Darryl McMiller

Posted  12/15/2005
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Susan Coleman, professor of finance at the Barney School of Business, has had an article published in the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures. The title of the article is "Free and Costly Trade Credit: A Comparison of Small Firms."


Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science at Hillyer College, recently published an article in the journal Politics and Policy (Vol. 33, Num. 3, Sept. 2005). The article is titled “Boosting Latino and Black Political Participation: The Impact of Associational and Religious Resources.”

McMiller looked at which variables increase black and Latino political participation in the post-civil rights era, and whether the factors that boost one group’s participation will boost the other’s. His findings show that, although a variety of variables may similarly enhance black and Latino political participation, the most consistent factor is exposure to mobilization in voluntary organizations. “But not just any organization will do,” according to the abstract for McMiller’s article. “Membership in voluntary organizations whose basic orientation is directed at changing the status quo, as opposed to groups that bring people together simply to enjoy each other’s presence, is what is most needed to help blacks and Latinos become active in the political system.”