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Digital activism – looking to the Arab Spring and new media to understand Ukraine and Venezuela
Post developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Muzammil Hussain In recent weeks, massive protests have swept through Venezuela and Ukraine. Instagram and Twitter have been featured as playing a key role in the latter. Digital activism is increasingly attributes to...
The Arab Barometer: Measuring Change in the Middle East and North Africa
Post Developed by Katie Brown and Mark Tessler. This is the first in a series of posts profiling innovative research projects associated with the Center for Political Studies (CPS) which make their data available at no cost for the public good. Today, we look at the...
Social Desirability, Vote Fraud in Russia Elections
Post developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Kirill Kalinin In March of 2012, Vladimir Putin was elected to his third term as President of Russia, after a four year leave serving as Prime Minister. Massive protests and speculation about electoral manipulation...
Runaway youth in child welfare placements are more likely to enter the justice system
Post developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Rosemary Sarri. 400,000 youth are placed out of home in residential treatment institutions in the United States because they were abused or neglected their family. Just 2% of these youth placed out of home in...
Celebrating a decade of Carnegie support for Russian social scientists
Post developed by Katie Brown and Bill Zimmerman. On December 16, 2013, Center for Political Studies (CPS) Research Professor Emeritus Bill Zimmerman hosted a very special video conference. Zimmerman and his colleagues from the European University at St. Petersburg...
What hobbles online activism in non-democracies? It’s more than just repression
Post developed by Katie Brown and Yuen Yuen Ang. What hobbles online activism in autocracies? The intuitive answer: repression. In a recent article titled "Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why 'I-Paid-A-Bribe' Worked in India but Failed in China"...
How do the American people feel about gun control?
Developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Darrell Donakowski. On September 16, 2013, a former reservist killed 12 people in a Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. This latest high profile mass American shooting prompted President Obama to urge another push for stronger gun...
Millennials: Narcissists, or hope for the future?
Post developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Ronald Inglehart. Time Magazine’s 2013 cover story by Joel Stein labeled Millennials – the generation born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s – as self-entitled narcissists. That story is one in a slew of...
Voters are not broken
Developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Arthur Lupia. Voters are ignorant and we must fix them. This belief has spawned much political science research and many efforts to inform the "ignorant. " But what if this premise is false? In a forthcoming book – The...
Turkey climbing Utility Ladder of Freedoms, according to World Values Survey data
Developed by Katie Brown in coordination with Ronald Inglehart. The World Values Survey tracks values and cultural change over time and across the world. Conducted in five waves from 1981 to 2007 – with a sixth wave being collected now – the survey samples from 90% of...
