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UrduUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — American politicians have long been expected to uphold a certain veneer: powerful, influential and never vulnerable. New Penn State research has found that these idealized forms of masculinity may also help explain support for Donald Trump…
Tag: Political Science
Voluntary or compulsory? New evidence on motivation for anti-COVID-19 policies
Policies to contain the Covid-19 pandemic require widespread cooperation in order to be successful.
Book sheds light on work by opposition politicians in Singapore
Journey in Blue: A Peek into the Workers’ Party of Singapore by former non-constituency member of parliament (NCMP) Yee Jenn Jong covers Jenn Jong’s unexpected leap into opposition politics just weeks before the breakthrough 2011 General Election and his experience…
New center for nuclear disarmament for Uppsala University
Swedish Government’s assigned today
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) ‘Practices of Comparing’ extended
German Research Foundation (DFG) supports network with 11.9 million euros in funding
COVID-19: what strategies are beneficial to the state
Competing benefits: economic theory and COVID constraints
COVID-19 escalated armed conflicts in several war-torn countries
India, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan and Philippines all saw an escalation of civil wars
Why do we assume pandemics result in devastation?
Researchers found that early doctors and scholars who studied ancient plagues have shaped our fears and expectations of pandemics today
Political researchers to study how ideas become “framed” for debate
Who decides how political ideas are ‘framed,’ and how are these frames shared with others? A new international three-year project led by Dr Özlem Atikcan of Warwick’s Department of Politics and International Studies, Professor Anna Holzscheiter of Germany’s TU Dresden,…
Energy transition at the crossroads: New topical issue in Russian Journal of Economics
Titled “Energy transition at the crossroads”, the new issue of the Russian Journal of Economics gets a set of profound messages across, which can be summarized as: “transition matters, transition goes, yet transition is not a simple, unified march towards…
Extreme political advertising can hurt campaign efforts
Research identifies top-down and bottom-up formation of political echo chambers
Efforts to combat COVID-19 perceived as morally right
According to new research, people tend to moralize COVID-19-control efforts and are more willing to endorse human costs emerging from COVID-19-related restrictions than to accept costs resulting from other restraints meant to prevent injury or death.
Explained: Political polarization
Economic inequality can cause it; Reversing it is difficult
Political partisanship has had outsized influence on individual social mobility during COVID-19 pand
Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals’ social mobility during COVID-19
Polarization increases with economic decline, becoming cripplingly contagious
PRINCETON, N.J.–The rise of populist movements is changing political systems around the world. As support for these “anti-elite” movements intensifies, many are scrambling to understand whether economic decline and intensifying inter-group conflict are playing a role. A model developed by…
Vanderbilt researchers discover strong correlation between partisanship and social mobility during COVID-19 pandemic
According to many medical experts, reduced social mobility – defined here as social contact and travel within and among communities – is a necessary factor to contain the spread of COVID-19. Joshua Clinton, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University,…
Singapore looks forward to deepening ties with India: Prime Minister Lee
PM Lee stresses on the value of the relationship during launch of book on 50 essays by 51 Singaporeans on Singapore-India relations
Most U.S. social studies teachers feel unprepared to teach civic learning
Gap could contribute to truth decay, survey finds
When playing favorites can hurt growth
Study finds China’s industrial-park policy is better for productivity when political connections are not a factor
Project 5-100 universities see a dramatic increase in publications in leading journals
A team of HSE researchers–Nataliya Matveeva, Ivan Sterligov, and Maria Yudkevich–have analyzed the research activity of universities participating in Russia’s Academic Excellence Project 5-100. Overall, the quality of publications of these universities has improved. Collectively, participating universities have tripled their…
UBC study explores link between social status and trust in decision-makers
Socioeconomic status a significant factor in distrust of powerful
For nationalistic regimes, similar COVID-19 policies are the sincerest form of flattery
Pandemic response suggests nations copy their neighbors
Why does it matter if most Republican voters still think Biden lost?
New Bright Line Watch survey finds that fewer than a third of Republican voters have confidence in the national vote count.
Living with autonomous systems “we can trust”
New report calls for greater input from society on future direction of autonomy
‘Fairmandering’ data tool makes redistricting more representative
ITHACA, N.Y. – A new mathematical method developed by Cornell University researchers can inject fairness into the fraught process of political redistricting – and proves that it takes more than good intent to create a fair and representative district. The…
Newest phase of massive slavery database welcomes public contribution
Michigan State University’s searchable database containing millions of records cataloging the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants — Enslaved.org — is launching a second phase that will accept contributions from the public and from academic researchers. The one-of-a-kind hub,…
1 in 3 who are aware of deepfakes say they have inadvertently shared them on social media
Author says results highlight need to educate citizens to deal with deepfakes
What does East Germany’s rise and fall have to do with pigs? A lot, actually
The communist state’s approach to industrial pig farming foreshadowed its demise, a University of Rochester historian argues
Xenophobia in Germany is declining, but old resentments are paired with new radicalism
Leipzig Authoritarianism Study 2020 published
A study analyses what leads US citizens to support intervention abroad
Researchers at UPF and at the Catholic University of Leuven have studied the different motivations and ways whereby the US intervenes in other countries to promote democracy, such as foreign aid, economic sanctions and military intervention
Massive dataset reveals which governments have best responded to COVID-19 pandemic
Are our political institutions up for the task of managing the COVID-19 pandemic and any possible future similar threats? A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has compiled an extensive dataset tracking public health government responses to COVID-19 at national and subnational levels of government throughout the world.
Field research has changed, and so should ethical guidelines, Brown professor says
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The old ethics rules are no longer offering adequate protection to field research subjects, according to two leading social scientists from Brown and Pennsylvania State Universities — and as a result, individual people and even…
Crossing international borders can be deadly for forced migrants
Study finds patterns across space and time in force migrant deaths
The GovLab releases recommendations for data-driven response to COVID-19
BROOKLYN, New York, November 16, 2020 – The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, with the support of the Henry Luce Foundation , today released guidance to inform decision-making in the responsible re-use of data…
By the Book
Dig into the knowledge and interests of CSU faculty experts with their personal book recommendations.
How do counter-terrorism measures impact residents’ everyday experience?
A new European research project starting in January 2021 aims to provide an unprecedented international comparison of how counter-terrorism and urban security change the everyday experiences of residents across cities in Europe. The project has been launched by an international…
Difficult to implement national corona restrictions in Malawi
Households need financial support if Covid-19 restrictions are to be successful in Malawi. Furthermore, the authorities issuing the restrictions have an additional bearing on their enforceability. These are findings from a new study examining the relationship between authorities and civil…
In Europe, climate change counter movement think tanks are conservative and neoliberal
They follow similar patterns to those found in the US, according to a study of which Núria Almiron, a researcher at the Department of Communication
Rutgers Pollster Discusses Presidential Election, Polling, Polarization
Ashley Koning analyzes an unprecedented election, the voters and the polling industry The polls correctly predicted that Joe Biden would become the 45th president of the United States but stopped short of getting the rest right – leaving the public…
Analysis of Trump’s tweets reveals systematic diversion of the media
President Donald Trump’s controversial use of social media is widely known and theories abound about its ulterior motives. New research published today in Nature Communications claims to provide the first evidence-based analysis demonstrating the US President’s Twitter account has been…
Explaining the religious vote for Trump
New research by LSU sociologists indicate it wasn’t Christian nationalism that drove churchgoers’ Trump vote in 2016. Rather, surprisingly, Christian nationalism was important among non-churchgoers. Christian nationalism is thought to have been an important factor in the election of Donald…
Game ‘pre-bunks’ political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy
A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer”, using tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town, has been shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation in its users. The free-to-play
Fashion’s underappreciated role in presidential politics
Does a well-dressed president make for a better president? Yes, says political scientist David O’Connell.
Fashion’s underappreciated role in presidential politics
Chief of style
Mobile phones help Americans encounter more diverse news
Thanks largely to mobile phones, Americans are reading news from a wider range of sources, though many do not read any online news at all.
How Twitter takes votes away from Trump but not from Republicans
A popular narrative holds that social media network Twitter influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential elections by helping Republican candidate Donald Trump spread partisan content and misinformation. In a recent interview with CBS News, Trump himself stated he “would not be here without social media.”
Attention! Danger: what fear does to us
BfR Knowledge Dialogue discusses how to deal with uncertainty
Disease-transmission model forecasts election outcomes
Election model treats political influence like a contagion
Study: Republicans and Democrats hate the other side more than they love their own side
‘When ideals and policies matter less than dominating foes, government becomes dysfunctional,’ researchers say
Forecasting elections with a model of infectious diseases
Forecasting elections is a high-stakes problem. Politicians and voters alike are often desperate to know the outcome of a close race, but providing them with incomplete or inaccurate predictions can be misleading. And election forecasting is already an innately challenging…