Puerto Ricans in the United States: Research roundup
2013 roundup of recent research on Puerto Ricans, including studies on their political status, demographics, socioeconomics and education.
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Brand-specific consumption of alcohol among underage youth in the United States
2013 study from Boston University and Johns Hopkins providing the first available national estimates of youth alcohol brand preference.
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The Supreme Court, public opinion and decision-making: Research roundup
2013 review of scholarly studies that examine the intersection between public opinion and rulings of the Supreme Court.
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What’s new in digital scholarship: June 2013
June 2013 roundup of research. Topics include drone journalism, surveillance, Twitter in conflict zones, crowdsourced information platforms, and remix culture.
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The state of the nation’s housing, 2013
2013 report by Harvard University on the U.S. housing market, including demographic drivers, homeownership rates, rentals and continuing challenges.
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Same-sex marriage: Research roundup
Selection of academic scholarship on the dynamics of the same-sex marriage debate in the public square and within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities.
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Using the Enron e-mail archive to understand corporate political attention
2013 study in Legislative Studies Quarterly on the nature of Enron’s efforts to influence the Congressional and regulatory rule-making process.
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Winner-take-all politics: The precipitous rise of top incomes in the United States
2010 study from Yale University and U.C. Berkeley published in Politics & Society on rising American income inequality and root political causes.
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The rise of contextual journalism, 1950s-2000s
2013 study from Columbia University showing that the interpretation of events has become an increasingly important element of journalism.
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Monetary costs of dementia in the United States
2013 study in the New England Journal of Medicine calculating that the total cost of dementia for America was as high as $215 billion in 2010.
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