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Did Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law Increase Firearm Homicides?
Research
July 23, 2013

Did Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law Increase Firearm Homicides?

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Defensive Political Science Responds Defensively to an Attack
International Debate
July 23, 2013

Defensive Political Science Responds Defensively to an Attack

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Why Study Social Science
Academic Funding
March 5, 2013

Why Study Social Science

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The Study of Conflict Mediation by Political Scientists
Impact
December 29, 2012

The Study of Conflict Mediation by Political Scientists

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Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)

Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.

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Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)

In my previous post I discussed the lack of government responsiveness to the middle-class and the poor, when their policy preferences diverge […]

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Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 1 of 3)

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 1 of 3)

If policy influence becomes so unequal that the wishes of most citizens are ignored most of the time, a country’s claim to be a democracy is cast in doubt. And that is exactly what I found in my analyses of the link between public preferences and government policy in the U.S.

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Why the Stevens Op-Ed is Wrong

Why the Stevens Op-Ed is Wrong

The claim that real politics is messier than the statistics are capable of capturing is obviously correct. But the implied corollary – that the government shouldn’t go out of its way to support it – doesn’t follow.

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Political Science Serving the Public Interest

Political Science Serving the Public Interest

On May 9, the House of Representatives adopted a provision that would preclude the National Science Foundation (NSF) from supporting research in the field of political science.

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