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UrduUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — It may not be just location, location, location that influences where people move to in the United States, but also politics, politics, politics, according to a team of researchers. In a study of county-to-county migration patterns…
Tag: Political Science
Working, yet poor
Goethe University is a participant in a project receiving 3.2 million Horizon 2020 grant
Growing length of manifestos casts new light on electioneering history
From a modest 150 words to the length of a children’s book – the number of words used by politicians in their election manifestos has grown substantially in the past century, new research shows. Far from becoming irrelevant because few…
New assessment finds EU electricity decarbonization discourse in need of overhaul
It’s well known that the EU is focusing its efforts on decarbonizing its economy. In many respects, Germany’s Energiewende personifies the poster child of that effort. Unfortunately, substantial investments in the Energiewende have not yet yielded significant reductions in GHG…
New assessment finds EU electricity decarbonization discourse in need of overhaul
It’s well known that the EU is focusing its efforts on decarbonizing its economy. In many respects, Germany’s Energiewende personifies the poster child of that effort. Unfortunately, substantial investments in the Energiewende have not yet yielded significant reductions in GHG…
What leads citizens to vote for ‘anti-establishment’ parties?
An article by Danilo Serani, a researcher with the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UPF, analyses the impact of the economic crisis on the electoral preferences of European citizens.
What leads citizens to vote for ‘anti-establishment’ parties?
An article by Danilo Serani, a researcher with the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UPF, analyses the impact of the economic crisis on the electoral preferences of European citizens.
Gender quotas in business — how do Europeans feel?
Researchers from Göttingen und Mannheim publish first attitude comparison across countries
Gender quotas in business — how do Europeans feel?
Researchers from Göttingen und Mannheim publish first attitude comparison across countries
Free Internet access should be a basic human right — study
Free internet access must be considered as a human right, as people unable to get online – particularly in developing countries – lack meaningful ways to influence the global players shaping their everyday lives, according to a new study. As…
Free Internet access should be a basic human right — study
Free internet access must be considered as a human right, as people unable to get online – particularly in developing countries – lack meaningful ways to influence the global players shaping their everyday lives, according to a new study. As…
Stanford researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome
Scholars have been studying Rome for hundreds of years, but it still holds some secrets – for instance, relatively little is known about the ancestral origins of the city’s denizens. Now, an international team led by researchers from Stanford University,…
Hurt in the east — distance in the west
Interview project ‘Generation 1975 — being 14 in the new Germany’: As evaluation of material has started, the project initiator from the University of Konstanz considers the results so far
Voters agree with polls that favor their candidates
ANN ARBOR–With the presidential election a year away, pollsters will barrage the country with poll questions to get the pulse of the voters about the candidates. But how these media-reported polls are received by the public is often viewed with…
Higher earning ‘elite’ political lobbyists overstate their own achievements, study shows
“Elite”, high-earning political lobbyists are more likely to overstate their achievements, a new study shows. Political influencers who have a smaller salary and work in specialist areas or for public interest groups are less overconfident – or even underestimate their…
Catholic Church in Cuba did not stay on the margins of the revolution
First study utilizing archives of the Catholic Church from the Cuban Revolution published at the University of Helsinki
Higher earning ‘elite’ political lobbyists overstate their own achievements, study shows
“Elite”, high-earning political lobbyists are more likely to overstate their achievements, a new study shows. Political influencers who have a smaller salary and work in specialist areas or for public interest groups are less overconfident – or even underestimate their…
Catholic Church in Cuba did not stay on the margins of the revolution
First study utilizing archives of the Catholic Church from the Cuban Revolution published at the University of Helsinki
Conservatives more likely to support climate policy if they report harm due to extreme weather
CORVALLIS, Ore. – People who identify as politically conservative are more like to support climate change mitigation policies if they have report experiencing personal harm from an extreme weather event such as a wildfire, flood or tornado, a new study…
Tales of travel: Research project explores travel writing in the early modern period
Travelogues gained in popularity in Europe from the mid-18th century and subsequently grew in social and political significance
Study Identifies Religious Bias Against Refugees
When you hold constant national origin, religion is the most powerful source of discrimination against refugees to the United States – mattering more than gender, age, fluency in English or professional skill. Also: Though anti-Muslim bias prevails across the board in the U.S., it differs across subgroups.
Political parties with less interest in an issue more likely to take radical stance
Political parties who care less about an issue will take more extreme stances on it when drawing up policies to appeal to the electorate – and it can pay off at the ballot box. Research from Lancaster University and the…
Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk: Memory culture and political interests
New publication sheds light on a heated debate on the eve of a key election in Poland
Relatively unhappy
How strict labor laws reduce workers’ happiness
A look at Japan’s evolving intelligence efforts
New book examines the past and future of Japanese intelligence services in a rapidly shifting world
Trump tweets were systematic plan of attack in Presidential campaign — study
First detailed description of variation and change in style of 21,739 tweets posted between 2009 and 2018 on the Donald Trump Twitter account. Four general patterns of linguistic variation identified in Trump’s tweets: conversational, campaigning, engaging and advisory styles. Results…
Researchers outline policy approaches to transform fire management
‘Living with fire is not easy’
High wealth inequality linked with greater support for populist leaders
People who live or think they live in a more economically unequal society may be more supportive of a strong, even autocratic leader, a large-scale international study shows. Scientists from 30 universities across the globe collected data from residents in…
Trump’s Twitter communication style shifted over time based on varying communication goals
Systematic variation in rhetoric and style suggest underlying communication strategies
Europeans trust the state and its institutions, but not politicians
The BBVA Foundation has presented the first module of its European Values Survey 2019, examining a broad set of values and attitudes held by the adult population of five European countries (Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain).
NSF awards two ‘convergence accelerator’ pilot grants to UNC Charlotte
Two faculty teams at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have received awards in phase 1 of the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program, a major new research investment by the agency, designed to “accelerate use-inspired convergence research in…
Research on the good life
ZiF conference on late socialist societies
Study: Children are interested in politics but need better education from parents and schools
Multisite study surveyed children’s experiences and knowledge related to the 2016 US presidential el
September/October 2019 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Fewer Children Seeing Family Physicians in Rural Areas A Vermont study suggests that a declining proportion of children receive care in family medicine practices. These same children, particularly those in isolated rural areas, are more likely to visit pediatric practices.…
Bots might prove harder to detect in 2020 elections
New study by USC researchers shows bots evolving to better mimic humans during elections
Children and partners are key
The influence of early family formations on support in older age
The Leakey Foundation to hold symposium on tribalism, politics, and evolution
New York, NY September 5, 2019 — At a moment when society feels dangerously polarized, fragmented and unstable, the symposium “Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution” offers a forum for understanding our human urge to form alliances. On September…
How ‘information gerrymandering’ influences voters
Study analyzes how networks can distort voters’ perceptions and change election results
How do social networks shape political decision-making?
Researchers say science can explain — and improve — group decision-making
Study finds increase in women giving TED talks but not ethnic minorities
Women gave more than half of TED talks in the first half of 2017, up from less than one-third in 2006, according to a new study published in Political Research Exchange . But the German research team also found that…
‘Mental rigidity’ at root of intense political partisanship on both left and right — study
People who identify more intensely with a political tribe or ideology share an underlying psychological trait: low levels of cognitive flexibility, according to a new study. This “mental rigidity” makes it harder for people to change their ways of thinking…
How moral obligation drives protest
Researchers have long studied the motives that inspire people to join in collective action. Three factors have received particular attention: anger caused by apparent social injustice; belief in the efficacy of collective action; and politicised identity. In 2008, these factors…
Fake news can lead to false memories
Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, according to research in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research was conducted in the…
IRS budget cuts result in $34.3 billion in lost tax revenue from large firms
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Budget cuts at the Internal Revenue Service threaten the agency’s effectiveness and have led to billions of dollars in lost tax revenue, new research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business shows. The research is among…