Keith G Bentele

Interests

Teaching

Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Public Policy, Inequality, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Stratification, Environmental Sociology

Research

Public Policy, Inequality, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Stratification, Homelessness

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Bentele, K. G., & O'Brien, E. (2016). Con: Resolved, States Should Enact Voter ID Laws and Reduce Early Voting.. In Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System.. CQ Press.
• Bentele, K. G., & Kenworthy, L. (2013). Globalization and Earnings Inequality in the United States.. In The Economics of Inequality, Poverty and Discrimination in the 21st Century.(pp 343-358). Praeger.
• Kenworthy, L., & Bentele, K. G. (2011). How Trickle Down Can Fail: The U.S. Case.. In Progress for the Poor(pp 19-33). Oxford University Press.

Journals/Publications

• Agley, J., Meyerson, B. E., Eldridge, L. A., Crosby, R. A., Bentele, K. G., Jun, M., Vadiei, N., Kennedy, A., & Anderson, K. (2021). Exploration of pharmacist comfort with harm reduction behaviors: Cross-sectional latent class analysis. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 1-9.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021). How did Inequality Gain and Retain Such Prominence as a Political Issue on the Democratic Party Agenda?. Research in Political Sociology, 28, 3-22.
• Robertson, C. T., Bentele, K. G., Meyerson, B. E., Wood, A. S., & Salwa, J. (2021). Effects of Political versus Expert Messaging on Vaccination Intentions of Trump Voters. PLoS ONE, 16(9), 1-7. doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257988
• Bentele, K. G., Sager, R., & Aykanian, A. (2018). Rewinding Roe v. Wade: Understanding the Accelerated Adoption of State-Level Restrictive Abortion Legislation, 2008-2014. JOURNAL OF WOMEN POLITICS & POLICY, 39(4), 490-517.
• Price, K., & Bentele, K. G. (2016). Voting to End Vulnerability: Understanding the Recent Proliferation of State-level Child Sex Trafficking Legislation.. William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, 23(1), 1-26.
• Sager, R., & Bentele, K. (2016). Coopting the State: The Conservative Evangelical Movement and State-Level Institutionalization, Passage, and Diffusion of Faith-Based Initiatives. RELIGIONS, 7(6).
• Bentele, K. G. (2015). Vulnerability in Numbers: Racial Composition of the Electorate, Voter Suppression, and the Voting Rights Act.. Harvard Latino Law Review, 18(99), 1-51.
• Bentele, K. G., Sager, R., Soule, S. A., & Adler Jr., G. (2014). Breaking Down the Wall between Church and State: State Adoption of Religious Inclusion Legislation, 1995-2009. JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 56(3), 503-533.
• Bentele, K. G. (2013). Distinct paths to higher inequality? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of rising earnings inequality among US States, 1980-2010. RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY, 34, 30-57.
• Bentele, K. G., & Ibsen, A. (2013). Exploring the Patent Surge: Increased Incentives or Multiplying Motives?. Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society., 95(1).
• Bentele, K. G., & O'Brien, E. E. (2013). Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies. PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, 11(4), 1088-1116.
• Bentele, K. G., & Nicoli, L. T. (2012). Ending Access as We Know It: State Welfare Benefit Coverage in the TANF Era. SOCIAL SERVICE REVIEW, 86(2), 223-268.
• King, B. G., Bentele, K. G., & Soule, S. A. (2007). Protest and policymaking: Explaining fluctuation in congressional attention to rights issues, 1960-1986. SOCIAL FORCES, 86(1), 137-163.

Presentations

• Bentele, K. G. (2021, April). SIROW Supports a Healthy Arizona. AZ Mismatched Budget - Demanding We Cover the Needs of our Whole Community. Phoenix: The AZ Ground Game.
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  I put together an infographic and blurb from SIROW that were presented by TAGG (The AZ Ground Game) during a forum on the Arizona state budget. These materials were developed collaboratively with SIROW PIs.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, August). Key Findings from Report People Experiencing Homelessness in the Tucson/Pima County CoC: A Detailed Examination of their Demographics, Conditions, and Experiences 2018-2020. Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness General Council Meeting. Tucson (via zoom): Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, December). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – Update.. Phoenix Community Alliance Meeting. Phoenix (via zoom): Phoenix Community Alliance.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, December). Housing Insecurity in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – 2021 Trends & 2022 Forecasts.”. Pet Housing Crisis Task Force Meeting. Phoenix (via zoom): Pet Housing Crisis Task Force.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, December). Housing Insecurity in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – 2021 Trends & 2022 Forecasts.”. Phoenix Community Alliance Meeting. Phoenix (via zoom): Phoenix Community Alliance.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, December). Housing Insecurity in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – 2021 Trends & 2022 Forecasts.”. Pima County Eviction Prevention Call. Tucson (via zoom): Pima County Dept. of Community and Workforce Development.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, February). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – Update.. Phoenix Community Alliance Meeting. Phoenix (via zoom): Phoenix Community Alliance.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, February). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – Update.. Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness General Council Meeting. Tucson (via zoom): Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, January). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – Update.. Maricopa Regional Continuum of Care Meeting. Phoenix (via zoom): Maricopa Regional Continuum of Care.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, July). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – Update.. Phoenix Community Alliance Meeting. Phoenix (via zoom): Phoenix Community Alliance.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, March). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis – Update.. Valley of the Sun United Way Meeting. Tucson (via zoom): Valley of the Sun United Way.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, November). Quick Update on Housing Insecurity, Evictions, and Rental Assistance in Pima County. Tucson Tenants Union Listening Session. Tucson (via Zoom): Tucson Tenants Union & People's Defense Initiative.
• Meyerson, B. E., Russell, D., Agley, J., Vadiei, N., & Bentele, K. G. (2021, June). ASAP: Access to Syringes at Pharmacies. Reducing Pharmacy-Based Stigma to Increase the Sale and Purchase of Over-the-counter Syringes.. Stigma of Addiction Summit RegionalUniversity of Texas.
• Stevens, S., Andrade, R., Bentele, K. G., & Lopez, G. (2021, May). Amity at Dragonfly Project Evaluation Data Summary. presentation at Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village. Tucson, AZ (via Zoom): Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village.
• Stevens, S., Andrade, R., Bentele, K. G., & Lopez, G. (2021, November). Amity at Dragonfly Project Evaluation Data Summary. presentation at Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village. Tucson, AZ (via Zoom): Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, August). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. Old Pueblo Community Services Meeting. Tucson, AZ: Old Pueblo Community Services.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, December). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis - Dec Update. Pima County’s Eviction Prevention Collaboration Group. Tucson, AZ: Pima County Government.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, December). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona’s ELDER Alliance Meeting. Tucson, AZ: United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona’s ELDER Alliance.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, November). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. Pima County Health Department. Tucson, AZ: Pima County Government.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, November). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. Pima County's Addressing Poverty Working Group. Tucson, AZ: Pima County Government.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, November). The 2020 US Presidential Election – A View from AZ. Presentation to communication workers and political advisers for Høyre (a Norwegian political party). Oslo, Norway (via Zoom): Høyre.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, September). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. Pima County’s Eviction Prevention Collaboration Group. Tucson, AZ: Pima County Government.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, September). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. Pima County’s Task Force on Preventing Evictions and Homelessness. Tucson, AZ: Pima County Government.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, September). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. Primavera Foundation’s Board Meeting. Tucson, AZ: Primavera Foundation.
• Bentele, K. G., & Powell, C. M. (2020, September). Forecasting Homeless in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis. Arizona Housing Coalition Webinar. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Housing Coalition.
• Stevens, S., Andrade, R., Bentele, K. G., & Lopez, G. (2020, May 18th). Amity at Dragonfly Project Evaluation Data Summary. presentation at Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village. Tucson, AZ: Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village.
• Stevens, S., Andrade, R., Bentele, K. G., & Lopez, G. (2020, November 23rd). Amity at Dragonfly Project Evaluation Data Summary. presentation at Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village. Tucson, AZ: Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village.
• Bentele, K. G. (2019, November 6th). Bridges to Wellness Quarterly Report Summary Presentation.. Internal presentation to Bridges to Wellness team. Tucson, AZ: SIROW.
• Stevens, S., Andrade, R., Bentele, K. G., & Lopez, G. (2019, November 18th). Amity at Dragonfly Project Baseline Data.. presentation at Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village. Tucson, AZ: Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village.
• Price, K., & Bentele, K. G. (2017, February). Voting to End Vulnerability: Understanding the Recent Proliferation of State-level Child Sex Trafficking Legislation.. William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law’s Symposium: Combating Human Trafficking Through Law and Social Policy. Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law.
• Bentele, K. G. (2016, March). Pro-Poor Growth, Trickle-Down Inequality, Dystopian Inequality, & Egalitarian Stagnation: Distinctive Patterns of Growth in U.S. State Earnings Inequality and the Size of Low Wage Workforces 1979-2015. The University of Arizona’s School of Sociology Brownbag Series. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona’s School of Sociology.
• Bentele, K. G. (2015, February). Black Votes Matter: Responding to State Voter Restrictions. Equality Re=Imagined Conference. Yale University: ISIP Center for the Study of Inequality.
• Sager, R., Bentele, K. G., & Aykanian, A. (2014, February). Rewinding Roe v. Wade: Why States Have Accelerated Adoption of Restrictive Abortion Legislation, 2008-2012. Eastern Sociological Association meeting. Baltimore, MD: Eastern Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G. (2013, August). Jim Crow 2.0?: Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Polices. American Sociological Association annual meeting. New York, NY: American Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G. (2012, April). Teen Empowerment Panel Presentation. Teen Empowerment Presentation. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Boston.
• Bentele, K. G. (2012, August). Evaluating the Performance of the U.S. Social Safety Net in the Great Recession. American Sociological Association annual meeting. Denver, CO: American Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G., & O'Brien, E. (2012, April). Jim Crow 2.0?: Why States Recently Considered or Adopted Voter Access Polices. Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. Chicago, IL: Midwest Political Science Association.
• Adler, G., Bentele, K. G., Sager, R., & Soule, S. (2011, August). Diversity of Law in Church and State Legislation: The 50 States of Church and State. American Sociological Association annual meeting. Las Vegas, NV: American Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G. (2010, October). State-level Poverty, Inequality, and the Social Safety Net in the Great Recession. The Great Recession: Impacts and Responses (symposium). Boston, MA: Research Center for Urban Cultural History at University of Massachusetts, Boston.
• Ibsen, A., & Bentele, K. G. (2010, August). Court Specialization the Cause of the Patent Explosion? Evidence from Norway. American Sociological Association annual meeting. Atlanta, GA: American Sociological Association.
• Sager, R., & Bentele, K. G. (2010, August). Understanding the Processes of How Social Movements Matter: Implementation of State Faith-based Initiatives Over Time. American Sociological Association annual meeting. Atlanta, GA: American Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G. (2008, August). Distinct Paths to Higher Inequality? Earnings Inequality in the United States, 1980-2005. American Sociological Association annual meeting. Boston, MA: American Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G., & Thiebaud, L. (2008, August). Ending Access as We Know It? Determinants of State Welfare Benefit Coverage in the TANF Era. American Sociological Association annual meeting. Boston, MA: American Sociological Association.
• Sager, R., & Bentele, K. G. (2008, November). State Faith-Based Practices and the Dual Cultural Processes of Desecularization and Devolution of the Public Sector. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management annual meeting. Los Angeles, CA: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
• Bentele, K. G. (2007, August). The Dynamics of Systemic and Regional Income Inequality in U.S. States, 1970-2000. American Sociological Association annual meeting. New York, NY: American Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G. (2006, August). Have Macroeconomic Forces Contributed to Rising Earnings Inequality in the United States?. American Sociological Association annual meeting. Montreal, QC: American Sociological Association.
• Bentele, K. G. (2004, August). The Temporal Dynamics of Income Inequality in the U.S. States, 1976-1995. American Sociological Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA: American Sociological Association.
• King, B. G., Bentele, K. G., & Soule, S. (2004, August). Congressional Agenda-Setting and Fluctuating Attention to Civil and Political Rights, 1960-1987. American Sociological Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA: American Sociological Association.

Reviews

• Bentele, K. G. (2014. Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States.. International Review of Modern Sociology.
• Bentele, K. G. (2013. The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote(pp 920-921).

Others

• Bentele, K. G. (2021, January). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 10th Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, January). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 9th Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, January). Tucson Police Department Deflection Program Brief Report - Weekly Report. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
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  I provided short reports on the TPD Deflection program every week for all of 2021.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, January). Tucson Police Department SURT Team Outreach Activities & Deflection Brief Reports - Monthly. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
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  I provided monthly reports on the outreach and deflection activities of TPD's Substance Use Response Team, every month in 2021.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, July). People Experiencing Homelessness in the Tucson/Pima County Continuum of Care: A Detailed Examination of their Demographics, Conditions, and Experiences 2018-2020. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2021, March). Pima County Landlord Survey Report. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G., & Korchmaros, J. D. (2021, September). U-MATTER Recovery Support Services – Quarterly Cumulative Report – September 30, 2021. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Korchmaros, J. D., & Bentele, K. G. (2021, January). U-MATTER Program Sustainability - Focus Group Report.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women..
• Korchmaros, J. D., & Bentele, K. G. (2021, November). Enhancing and Expanding Access to Medication-assisted Treatment & Recovery Support Services. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Korchmaros, J. D., & Bentele, K. G. (2021, November). U-MATTER: Improving Well-being and Decreasing Opioid Misuse. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Batty, K., Bazata, B., Bentele, K. G., Cervantes, M., Harmon, P., Huffman, S., Hutchison, P., Kinkade, M., Landon, J., Mireles, O., Mirto, M., Morales, L., McDonald, M., Morrison, M., Palacios, A., Randall, K., Romero, L., Royal, L., Scoblink, K., , Sullivan, D., et al. (2020, December). Pima County Eviction and Homelessness Prevention Task Force December 2020 Report.
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  Final report of Pima County task force on preventing evictions and homelessness.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, December). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 7th Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, December). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 8th Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, January). Tucson Police Department Deflection Program Brief Report - Weekly Report. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
  More info

  I provided short reports on the TPD Deflection program every week for all of 2020.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, January). Tucson Police Department SURT Team Outreach Activities & Deflection Brief Reports - Monthly. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
  More info

  I provided monthly reports on the outreach and deflection activities of TPD's Substance Use Response Team.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, November). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 5th Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, November). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 6th Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, October). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 3rd Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, October). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 4th Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, September). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. 2nd Update.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G. (2020, September). Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County.. Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G., & Korchmaros, J. D. (2020, August). Tucson Police Department Deflection Program: Impact at 18 Months. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G., & Korchmaros, J. D. (2020, December). U-MATTER Impact at 18 Months. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G., & Korchmaros, J. D. (2020, October). U-MATTER Behavioral Health Staff and Co-responder Focus Group Report. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G., & Korchmaros, J. D. (2020, September). U-MATTER Recovery Support Services – Quarterly Cumulative Report – September 30, 2020. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bentele, K. G., & Powell, C. M. (2020, July). Forecasting Homelessness in Arizona During the COVID-19 Crisis - Estimating Likely Increases and Policy Recommendations to Reduce Harm and Hardship. Southwest Institute for Research on Women Report.
• Granillo, A. B., Bentele, K. G., & Korchmaros, J. D. (2020, July). Safe Haven: Behavioral Health MAT Team Focus Group Report– July 2020. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
• Bernstein, J., & Bentele, K. G. (2019, December). Got Work? The Highly Responsive Labor Supply of Low-Income, Prime-Age Workers.. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.. https://www.cbpp.org/research/full-employment/got-work-the-highly-responsive-labor-supply-of-low-income-prime-age-workers
• Bernstein, J., & Bentele, K. G. (2019, May). The Increasing Benefits and Diminished Costs of Running a High-pressure Labor Market.. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.. https://www.cbpp.org/research/full-employment/the-increasing-benefits-and-diminished-costs-of-running-a-high-pressure
• Friedman, D., Davis, T., MacEwan, A., Wagman, N., Schuster, L., Bentele, K. G., Albelda, R., Turini, D., Coonan, M., Bingulac, M., & Branger, A. (2015, February). On Solid Ground: Building Opportunity, Preventing Homelessness.. Center for Social Policy Publications.. https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=csp_pubs
• Bentele, K. G., & O'Brien, E. (2014, March). Evidence suggests that state legislators are working to restrict access to the vote in response to minority turnout.. The London School of Economics & Political Science USAPP Blog. http://bit.ly/1eR1s0r
• Sager, R., & Bentele, K. G. (2013, August). Religious displays and the grey area between church and state. OUPBlog (Oxford University Press). http://blog.oup.com/2013/08/religious-displays-church-and-state/
• Bentele, K. G. (2012, April). Evaluating the Performance of the U.S. Social Safety Net in the Great Recession.. Center for Social Policy Publications.. https://scholarworks.umb.edu/csp_pubs/62/