After unipolarity: China’s visions of international order in an era of U.S. decline
2011 report from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School on China’s rise to power and its implications.
Politics & Government
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of politics, elections, and local and national governments
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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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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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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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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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Transit access and zero-vehicle households
2011 report by the Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program on the transit options of U.S. households without private vehicles.
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Partisan conflict and Congressional approval ratings
2009 study in the American Journal of Political Science on partisan conflict in Congress and public approval ratings over time.
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Food crises and political instability in North Africa and the Middle East
2011 paper correlates incidences of social unrest (as identified by news reports) with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization global food price index.
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Macroeconomic effects of tax changes: Estimates from a new measure of fiscal shocks
2010 study in the American Economic Review on the direct consequences of post-World War II shifts in tax policy and their subsequent fiscal shocks.
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