Obama, racial prejudice, and the 2008 presidential vote
2011 study in PS: Political Science & Politics on the effect of racial attitudes on the final vote tall for Barack Obama in 2008.
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Insights from happiness studies from around the world
2011 study from the World Bank on the ability of individuals from more than 120 countries to adapt to their economic, political and social situations.
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2011 Medicare Trustees Report
2011 U.S. government report on the state of Medicare funding and the program’s future solvency, including information on its expenditure growth relative to GDP over time
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Black gender gap in education: Historical trends and racial comparisons
2011 study in the journal Demography examining the higher education completion rates for black men and women between 1940 and 2000.
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State of campaign finance policy: Recent developments and issues for Congress
2011 Congressional Research Service report on the campaign finance landscape that is evolving in American politics.
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Perceptions of politicization and public preferences toward the Supreme Court
2011 study from George Washington University and Duke University in Public Opinion Quarterly on public opinion, partisanship and Supreme Court nominees.
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Assessing the impact of the Great Recession on income and poverty across states
2011 fact sheet published by Congress’s Joint Economic Committee on the recession’s impact at the state level.
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Trends in college spending in the United States, 1999-2009
2011 report by the Delta Cost Project on enrollment levels, funding and staffing by universities and colleges over the past decade.
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ID at the polls: Assessing the impact of recent state voter ID laws on voter turnout
2011 paper in the Harvard Law and Policy Review compares changes in voter turnout between 2002 and 2006.
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Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state
2011 study in the journal Cognition measuring the public’s general perceptions of patients living in a persistent vegetative state.
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