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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How scientists negotiate the boundaries between religion and science
2011 study from researchers at Rice and Baylor Universities published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion about how scientists and academics view and religious beliefs.
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Research chat: Andrew Revkin on covering and using scholarship
Interview with longtime New York Times reporter and Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin
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The bias against creativity: Why people desire but reject creative ideas
2011 study by Cornell University published in Psychological Science on feelings of uncertainty and the adoption of novel or practical ideas.
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Divergence, similarity and symmetry in perceptions of threat by China and India
2011 study in the Journal of International Affairs on India’s and China’s perceptions of one another from a security perspective.
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