Public Policy

Political Studies Association Lecture a Debrief on US Election
Announcements
November 3, 2020

Political Studies Association Lecture a Debrief on US Election

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Beyond Plurality: Ideas for Replacing U.S. Electoral College
Public Policy
November 2, 2020

Beyond Plurality: Ideas for Replacing U.S. Electoral College

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Blessed are the Trusting, For They Are More Likely to Vote
Insights
November 2, 2020

Blessed are the Trusting, For They Are More Likely to Vote

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Brown Lecture: The Segregation Pandemic
Announcements
October 22, 2020

Brown Lecture: The Segregation Pandemic

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The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

Robert Dingwall cites a short story from 1957 which highlights why the development of a vaccine needs to always keep an eye on its safety, no matter what the pressures are for its immediate release.

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Panel: How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19?

Panel: How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19?

This panel, “How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19,” organized by the Campaign for Social Science and SAGE Publishing and held on September 21, featured three speakers giving their perspectives on the role of timely, appropriately representative, and reliable social statistics in informing the COVID-19 response and recovery planning.

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Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?

Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?

or 30 years, social scientists have been trying to educate scientific elites in the value of taking ordinary people with them rather than dismissing skepticism about science-based actions. This work has just gone out the window, argues Robert Dingwall.

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What Research Says About Voting by Mail (Spoiler: It’s Safe)

What Research Says About Voting by Mail (Spoiler: It’s Safe)

Evidence reviewed by a National Association of Public Administration working group finds that voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can in fact inspire public confidence in the voting process, if done properly.

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What’s Wrong with WeChat? The Problem with Social Media Censorship

What’s Wrong with WeChat? The Problem with Social Media Censorship

What is WeChat, and what does it do? Apart from ethnically suspect attacks on the platform itself, its ability to socially engineer discussion in China is a genuine concern.

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The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The author of a new book on the response to the coronavirus tries first to understand how apparently sane people could think it made sense to implement damaging policies, and secondly asks how the public might ensure that such a disastrous episode can never happen again.

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Will the 2020 Census Be the Last of Its Kind?

Will the 2020 Census Be the Last of Its Kind?

Could the 2020 iteration of the United States Census, the constitutionally mandated count of everyone present in the nation, be the last of its kind?

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This Moment, And the Next Steps for Social Change

This Moment, And the Next Steps for Social Change

Dr. Patricia Reid-Merritt, professor of Africana Studies and Social Work at Stockton University, considers the history of the Civil Rights Movement in conjunction with today’s Black Lives Matter. In this essay, she offers Americans struggling for liberation and Black freedom a four-step plan for social change.

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