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Results: 45 Studies on Government (of 356 total)

Politics: Pew Research: Gun Rights, Abortion, Gay Marriage Views Over Time

Civil Rights: Cross-Pressures of Religion and Contact with Gays and Lesbians, and Their Impact on Same-Sex Marriage Opinion

International: The Public and Private Sectors in Vietnam, 1993-2006

Civil Rights: Same-sex marriage and children’s well-being: Research roundup

Criminal Justice: Intimate Partner Violence and Urban Female Adolescents

Civil Rights: Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

Immigration: Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero — and Perhaps Less

Federal, State: Demand for Health Insurance among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy

Federal, State: Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much — or Not Enough?

Federal, State: Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2011

Politics: Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Trust in the United States, 1974 to 2010

Federal, State: U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: 2012 Congressional Report

Federal, State: 2012 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report

Civil Rights: Creating “No Excuses” (Traditional) Public Schools: Preliminary Evidence from an Experiment in Houston

International: The Promise and Perils of Private Voluntary Regulation: Labor Standards and Work Organization in Two Mexican Garment Factories

International: Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere

Federal, State: Does Living in a Subprime Neighborhood Affect the Probability of Default?

Federal, State: Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army: U.S. Response

International: Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy

International: Oil Revenues for Public Investment in Africa: Targeting Urban or Rural Areas?

Federal, State: Declining Influence of the United States Constitution

Civil Rights: Economic Burdens of Health Inequalities in the United States

International: The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Federal, State: U.S. Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy

Civil Rights: Witnesses in Action: The Effect of Physical Exertion on Recall and Recognition

Politics: A Negativity Gap? Voter Gender, Attack Politics and Participation in American Elections

Federal, State: Confidence in Banks, Financial Institutions and Wall Street, 1971-2011

Civil Rights: U.S. Justice Department: Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime?

Civil Rights: Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement and the Legacy of Racial Violence

Civil Rights: Neighborhood Racial Context and Perceptions of Police-Based Racial Discrimination of Black Youth

Politics: Effects of the Internet on politics: Research roundup

International: The Arab Spring and the Internet: Research roundup

Politics: One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election

International: Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square

International: World Bank: Poverty Levels in the Developing World

Criminal Justice: U.S. Incarceration and Correctional Population Levels: U.S. Justice Department

Criminal Justice: Muslim-American Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11

Criminal Justice: Sex Trafficking: Trends, Challenges and Limitations of International Law

Politics: Variability in Citizens’ Reactions to Different Types of Negative Campaigns

Federal, State: Overview of State Anti-Bullying Legislation and Other Related Laws

International: The Water Footprint of Humanity

International: U.N. Report: Findings on e-Waste Problems in Africa

Politics: Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science

Criminal Justice: Confessions That Corrupt: Evidence from the DNA Exoneration Case Files

International: Global Malaria Mortality Between 1980 and 2010: A Systematic Analysis

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