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Stopping State Repression: An Examination of Spells
Post developed by Yioryos Nardis in coordination with Christian Davenport. ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled "The Onset of...
Exploring the Effects of Skin Tone on Policy Preferences Among African Americans
Post developed by Lauren Guggenheim in coordination with Vincent Hutchings. ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled "The Color of Our...
The Effects of a Sustainable Development Intervention on Political Behavior
Post developed by Linda Kimmel in coordination with Elisabeth Gerber. ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled "Mobilizing or Demobilizing...
CPS Researcher Profile: Ugo Troiano – How can policies improve life of the people?
Post developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Ugo Troiano. This post is part of a researcher profile series that explores how Center for Political Studies (CPS) researchers came to their work. Today we profile Ugo Troiano, Faculty Associate in CPS and Assistant...
How the local environment shapes the way people vote in ethnically diverse new democracies
Post developed by Katie Brown and Nahomi Ichino. In many new democracies in developing countries, political parties are identified with particular ethnic groups, and voters tend to vote for the parties identified the same ethnicity as themselves – but not always....
Can negativity be a good thing?
Post developed by Katie Brown and Stuart Soroka. News content is dominated by negativity. Does this have negative consequences for political attitudes, or interest, or policymaking? Professor of Communication Studies and Center for Political Studies (CPS) researcher...
Does Presidential Party Impact Inflation Estimates?
Post developed by Katie Brown and Cassandra Grafström. So-called “inflation truthers” have made recent news waves with claims that inflation is actually much higher than reported. Mainstream financial news organizations have debunked the inflation truthers charges...
How accurate is marketing data?
Post developed by Katie Brown and Josh Pasek. Have you noticed how the products you look at online seem to follow you from site to site and the coupons you receive in the mail sometimes seem a little too targeted? This happens because a set of companies are gathering...
Significant moments throughout the history of ANES
Post developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Darrell Donakowski. This is the last in a series of posts celebrating the 65th anniversary of the American National Election Studies (ANES). The posts have sought to highlight some of the many ways in which the ANES...
The American Voter – A Seminal Text in Political Science
Post developed by Katie Brown. This post is part of a series celebrating the 65th anniversary of the American National Election Studies (ANES). The posts will seek to highlight some of the many ways in which the ANES has benefited scholarship, the public, and...
