Economic burdens of health inequalities in the United States
2009 study from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland on racial disparities in U.S. health care.
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U.S. Justice Department: Does Neighborhood Watch reduce crime?
2008 U.S. Justice Department meta-analysis reviewing the results of 18 research projects and studies on the relationship between crime reduction and citizen policing programs.
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Neighborhood racial context and perceptions of police-based discrimination
2009 study in the journal Criminology on the racial makeup of neighborhoods and trends in racial profiling.
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One vote out of step? The effects of salient roll-call votes in the 2010 election
2012 study published in American Politics Research on how the health care reform roll-call vote may have hurt Democrats.
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U.S. incarceration and correctional population levels: U.S. Justice Department
2011 reports from the U.S. Department of Justice with census of imprisoned and paroled persons.
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Abortion incidence and access to services in the United States
2011 study from the Guttmacher Institute analyzes data from a survey of U.S. providers to give a snapshot of abortion rates in the United States and related trends.
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Variability in citizens’ reactions to different types of negative campaigns
A 2011 study in the American Journal of Political Science on the effectiveness of negative campaign tactics.
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Financial performance of the major oil companies, 2007-2011
2012 Congressional Research Service report on business results for the five biggest U.S. oil companies over the past five years.
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Research chat: Scholarship and blogging “across the pond”; the view from LSE
An excerpt from a 2012 blog posting about research communications, by the London School of Economics’ “Impact of Social Sciences” site.
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Misinformation and fact-checking: Research findings from social science
2012 New America Foundation report on cognitive and psychological phenomena that make the task of journalistic corrections difficult.
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