Disaster recovery in black and white: A comparison of New Orleans and Gulfport
2014 study in the American Review of Public Administration on the impact of race, poverty and disaster aid on economic recovery after a natural disaster.
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The financial incumbency advantage: Causes and consequences
2014 study from the London School of Economics and Harvard University on the advantages that incumbent candidates in U.S. elections can have over challengers.
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Why we kill: Reviewing the political science research on the roots of violence
2014 paper from Dartmouth College on the evolving research understanding of political violence and a review of key intellectual trends.
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A “majority-minority” America, and perceived status threat by white citizens
2014 study in Psychological Science on the potential social and political responses of white Americans to future demographic shifts.
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Religion in the Arab Spring: Analyzing participation, motives, root causes
2014 Princeton study, published in in the Journal of Politics, examining empirical evidence relating to why people participated in the Arab Spring.
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Respect for human rights has improved over time: Modeling the changing standard of accountability
2014 study published in American Political Science Review by Pennsylvania State University on how to accurately measure human rights abuses over time.
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Estimating the incidence of rape and sexual assault: The problem of under-reporting
2013 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Research Council on ways to improve the accuracy of surveys on the incidence of rape and sexual assault.
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First-time juvenile offenders, probation and recidivism: Evidence from Los Angeles
2014 study in Social Work Research on the varying rates of re-offending based on the punishment given to youths for criminal behavior.
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Testing exclusionary attitudes toward immigrants: Research on intergroup contact
2014 study from Harvard that shows how contact with others of different backgrounds can affect majority community attitudes.
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Popular protests, coups and information flows: Research behind the revolutions
2014 study by New York University published in Journal of Politics on the relationship between popular protests, media freedom and coups.
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