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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...
Local to Global: Capacity-Building Workshops in Qatar
Post developed by Katie Brown and Michael Traugott, with input from Ghaydaa Yehia Fahim Ali. In 2008, Qatar University formed a partnership with the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR) and Center for Political Studies (CPS) to develop a...
Gawad Kalinga: a Partial Hope for Overpopulation 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. Manila slum from a car window The island country of the...
How ANES impacts the university classroom
Post developed by Katie Brown and Deborah Schildkraut. 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,...
Talking to decision makers: an ineffective way to measure conservation?
Post developed by Arun Agrawal and Katie Brown. Are our efforts to measure changes in conservation by talking to decision makers effective? This question motivated recent research by Arun Agrawal, Center for Political Studies (CPS) faculty associate and Professor in...
Americans are more sympathetic to the poor and more resentful of the rich than previous research indicates
Post developed by Katie Brown and Spencer Piston. The gap between the rich and poor in the United States is growing. Occupy Wall Street, fast food worker strikes, and other manifestations of this gap make headlines often. And just a few weeks ago, President Obama...
Voting Advice Applications
Post developed by Katie Brown and Ioannis Andreadis. Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are web platforms that help voters determine the candidate or the political party that best matches their own political ideology. Visitors answer a series of questions to gauge...
Is Russia “normal”?
Post developed by Katie Brown and William Zimmerman. Russian President Vladimir Putin often makes headlines. This week, U.S. sanctions against Putin in the wake of the Ukraine crisis dominated the news, while Putin’s rewrite of recent music history appeared in popular...
Electricity and elections cycle together in India
Post developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Brian Min. With six weeks of phased voting, 80% of potential voters are expected to cast ballots in India, making it the world’s largest election. Already marked by political posturing and violence, the elections also...
Could some seemingly racist sentiments be more about white in-group identification than out-group animosity?
Post developed by Katie Brown and Ashley Jardina. This month, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy made headlines. What started as a battle against the U.S. Federal Government for his cattle and land turned into daily press conferences. As part of the Sovereign Movement, Bundy...
