Public Policy

What May the Review into the Australian Research Council Bode for University Research?
Investment
September 20, 2022

What May the Review into the Australian Research Council Bode for University Research?

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Banning Books Threatens the Freedom to Read
Tools
September 19, 2022

Banning Books Threatens the Freedom to Read

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Encounters with (Constitutional) Monarchy
News
September 13, 2022

Encounters with (Constitutional) Monarchy

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Whither Nudge? New Evidence Review Questions Its Efficacy
Research
August 9, 2022

Whither Nudge? New Evidence Review Questions Its Efficacy

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The International Sociological Association Should Be Ashamed of Its President

The International Sociological Association Should Be Ashamed of Its President

ISA may not have any great love for the richer countries of the world, argues Robert Dingwall, but its president should be capable of telling the difference between mutual aid among sovereign nations and a desire to subject other countries to external domination.

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What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs

What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs

Can ethnography, long characterized as a lower tier of evidence in studying drug use, find things other approaches miss?

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After Rana Plaza: Scholars Study Exploitive Labor Regimes in Bangladesh

After Rana Plaza: Scholars Study Exploitive Labor Regimes in Bangladesh

Worker exploitation in garment supply chain factories is not just about sweatshops, note the authors of “After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories” which appeared in the Journal of Industrial Relations.

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Social Scientists Explain Community Bail Funds

Social Scientists Explain Community Bail Funds

Community vail funds are set up as a way to help the more than 80 percent of the over 650,000 people in jail in the U.S. have not been convicted and are presumed innocent but can’t afford bail.

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King Canute and the Cult of Zero Infection

King Canute and the Cult of Zero Infection

The humility of King Canute in the face of nature is worth recalling as a check on the enthusiasm for zero-infection. It is a fine-sounding slogan but do we really want to live in a society where everything else is sacrificed to this goal?

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Ellen Peters on Numeracy

Ellen Peters on Numeracy

A lack of ability of numbers is a serious issue in the world, in particular in the developed world, says Ellen Peters. And she’s trying to do something about that.

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Open Letter: Action Steps for Rebuilding Ukraine’s Science, Research, and Innovation

Open Letter: Action Steps for Rebuilding Ukraine’s Science, Research, and Innovation

The national science academies of the United States, the all-European academy and those of four separate European countries released, with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a short statement on rebuilding “a modern and globally integrated science and research system” in Ukraine.

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Pandemic Management – The Path Not Taken

Pandemic Management – The Path Not Taken

New data from the WHO show that during the pandemic’s first two years, Sweden had half the excess death rate of the UK, Germany or Spain – and a quarter of the excess death rate of many countries in Eastern Europe.

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