What’s new in digital scholarship: September 2013
September 2013 review of new studies on news, social media and Internet-related behavior and patterns.
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The debt ceiling and a potential U.S. default: Background research
2013 selection of recent research on the possibility of a U.S. default on its debt and Congressional negotiations over raising the debt ceiling.
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Federal government shutdown: Causes, processes and effects
2011 report by the Congressional Research Service on the details of a shutdown and the impact of the last such event, in 1995-1996
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The Arab Spring and the Internet: Research roundup
2013 roundup of recent studies and papers that bring a scholarly, data-driven lens to questions around the Arab Spring and its roots.
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State of the free press: Research chat with media law expert Lucy Dalglish
2013 interview with Lucy Dalglish, Dean of Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She was previously executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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Rise of Muslim foreign fighters: Islam and the globalization of jihad
2011 article in International Security on distinctions between Muslim foreign fighters and terrorists, and related policy implications.
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Wildfires and costs to the federal government: Yosemite’s Rim Fire and beyond
2013 research perspectives on wildfire fighting costs for the federal government, in the wake of the massive Yosemite Rim Fire.
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What’s new in digital scholarship: August 2013
August 2013 roundup of notable studies and reports in the areas of news, social and digital media technology scholarship.
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The context of the Yosemite Rim Fire: Research on the growing wildfire problem
2013 review of contextual research information relating to the Yosemite wildfire of August 2013. Included are representative studies in this area.
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Syrian intervention, political calculations and party affiliation: Political science perspectives
2011 study by UCLA published in the American Journal of Political Science on how the American public judges presidential decision-making on foreign crises.
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