Government

A Talk with Stefano DellaVigna: Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Event
February 15, 2024

A Talk with Stefano DellaVigna: Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption

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The Use of Bad Data Reveals a Need for Retraction in Governmental Data Bases
Communication
February 1, 2024

The Use of Bad Data Reveals a Need for Retraction in Governmental Data Bases

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Analysis: Indonesia Needs Quality Research to Inform Policy-Making
Impact
November 12, 2019

Analysis: Indonesia Needs Quality Research to Inform Policy-Making

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More Must be Done to Preserve the Freedom to Research
Higher Education Reform
October 31, 2019

More Must be Done to Preserve the Freedom to Research

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Should Academics Offer Support to Student Protesters?

Should Academics Offer Support to Student Protesters?

Despite warnings from universities (under government pressure), thousands of students in Indonesia protested controversial bills. What role, if any, should academics play in the support and encouragement of student protesters?

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Book Review: Will China Democratize?

Book Review: Will China Democratize?

In the shadow of the 25 year anniversary of the Tiananmen square crackdown, the recent Hong Kong protests have generated interest in how […]

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Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It

Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It

“We are now in a situation where science, technology, engineering and maths – the STEM subjects – were about 15 to 20 years ago….there was a lack of public understanding of what they contributed to society and its development”

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The State of Social Science: only itself to blame?

The State of Social Science: only itself to blame?

Both society and government rely on social science a great deal, and those who criticise it for what they see as its failure to predict events have misunderstood the nature of the knowledge it can produce.

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The Importance of Studying the Obvious

The Importance of Studying the Obvious

Everyone has experience being human, and so findings in social science coincide with something that we have either experienced or can imagine experiencing. The result is that social science all too often seems like common sense.

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SAGE opposes the Flake Amendment

SAGE opposes the Flake Amendment

Recently, the US House of Representatives passed off an amendment offered by Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would prohibit funding for the Political Science Program with the National Science Foundation. If enacted into law, this amendment would set an extraordinary and disturbing precedent in which Congress chooses which scientific disciplines should be funded and not funded within the NSF’s research portfolio.

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Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University

Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University

UK newspapers have belatedly picked up on a troubling precedent that is crystallizing in the US courts. Boston College has been ordered to disclose recordings from an archive of interviews with former IRA members to the Police Service of Northern Ireland…

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Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP

Social Science in an Emergency: An Interview with Andrew Miller MP

In 2011 the Science and Technology Select Committee published the report Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies, examining the role of science […]

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