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Securing Digital Infrastructures for Democracies “Born Digital” – How States and Activists are Competing to Regulate the Political Internet
Post developed by Katie Brown and Muzammil M. Hussain. ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled "Post-Arab Spring Formations of the...
Quantifying Rape Culture
Post developed by Katie Brown and Yuri Zhukov. ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Measuring Rape Culture,” was a part of the...
Measuring and Understanding Empathy
Post developed by Katie Brown and Nicholas Valentino. ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled "The Attitudinal Structure and Political...
Studying international forest interventions and their impacts
Post developed by Katie Brown and Arun Agrawal. Center for Political Studies (CPS) faculty associate and Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) Arun Agrawal studies environmental policy. Professor Agrawal and the International Forestry...
Does Public Broadcasting Matter?
Post developed by Katie Brown and Stuart Soroka. Public broadcasting is often lauded for its ability to inform citizens. Yet, few empirical studies have tested this common notion. Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science, and Center for Political...
Does Presidential Party Impact Inflation Estimates?
Post developed by Katie Brown and Cassandra Grafström So-called “inflation truthers” - who claim that inflation is actually much higher than reported in the United States - have made recent news waves. Mainstream financial news organizations have debunked the charges...
Why do Black Americans overwhelmingly vote Democrat?
Post developed by Vincent Hutchings, Hakeem Jefferson, and Katie Brown. The following post elaborates on a presentation titled “Out of Options? Blacks and Support for the Democratic Party” that was delivered at the 2014 World Congress of the International Political...
A fisher people’s association in the Philippines
Post by Rosemary Sarri. This post was written by Center for Political Studies, School of Social Work and Women’s Studies Professor Emerita Rosemary Sarri, after her visit to the Philippines in the spring of 2014. A fishing project in the Philippines As covered in an...
Andreadis seeks to bring ANES model to elections in Greece
Post developed by Katie Brown and Ioannis Andreadis. Ioannis Andreadis, a member of the Political Science faculty at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, studies elections in Europe. With a grant from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Andreadis was recently in residence...
Can racial prejudice demobilize white voters?
Post developed by Katie Brown and Spencer Piston. The 2008 election in the United States featured the first black major party presidential candidate in U.S. history - Barack Obama. Obama won in a historic election. But was his victory margin narrower than it could...
