Respect for human rights has improved over time: Modeling the changing standard of accountability
2014 study published in American Political Science Review by Pennsylvania State University on how to accurately measure human rights abuses over time.
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2014 study published in American Political Science Review by Pennsylvania State University on how to accurately measure human rights abuses over time.
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2014 research brief on what members of the House of Representatives have had to say about judges and the judiciary in recent years, by Bruce Peabody, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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2014 review of research on cycling and 10 ideas for reporting on your community, whether it has a well-established cycling culture or there’s a long road ahead.
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2014 study in Public Administration Review examining the impact of public officials’ corruption on states’ expenditures, borrowing, salaries, and more.
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2014 study in Annual Review of Political Science looking at the impact of the Great Recession and demographic shifts on state and local finance.
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2014 study in Public Administration Review on how K–12 public education fared during the recession to better understand the choices made by school districts
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2013 review of studies that shed light on school segregation and demographic change more than a half-century after Brown vs. the Board of Education.
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2014 report from the Congressional Research Service on the use of the current mortgage-interest deduction as well as four possible methods for reforming it.
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2013 study from Harvard, Wellesley and Johns Hopkins Universities on the varied effects of skilled immigration on employment and native workers.
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2014 study by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on ways that nations, states and municipalities can act to limit or reverse trends in CO2 emissions.
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