The effect of CCTV on public safety: Research roundup
Updated in 2014, this review of literature on the effectiveness of surveillance cameras against crime includes a 2009 meta-analysis by Northeastern and the University of Cambridge.
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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American economic power in decline? Rethinking the data in the context of globalization
December 2013 study in International Studies Quarterly with a new view on the persistence of American power, supported by new data analysis.
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Opposition to Muslims and the Muslim headscarf in Western Europe
2014 study by the WZB Berlin Social Science Center on attitudes towards Muslims and headscarf legislation in Western Europe.
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Public capital in countries with abundant natural resources: Is there a curse?
2013 study by the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex on the relationship between per-capita rents from natural resources and levels of public capital.
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Are U.S. state and local governments on a fiscally sustainable path?
2013 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the growing gap between the revenues that state and local governments receive and their mandatory long-term obligations.
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What’s new in digital scholarship, January 2014: Crowdfunding, disruption, Arabic Twitter, youth engagement, more
January 2014 review of latest studies in journalism, communications, computer science and global technology.
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Local government services and contracts: Best practices and key issues to watch
2013 study in State and Local Government Review on the nature of public-private service delivery and the potential benefits and risks of the various forms it can take.
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The influence of union membership on political participation and social capital
2013 study by the UMass Amherst and the U.C. Irvine in Social Forces on the effect of unions’ political activities on members’ levels of broader social engagement.
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Waging war on poverty: Historical trends using the Supplemental Poverty Measure
2014 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research that focuses on the effectiveness of government anti-poverty policies since 1967, using the new measure from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Extreme voices: Interest groups and the misrepresentation of issue publics
2013 study in Public Opinion Quarterly that suggests specific advocacy groups and lobbies often distort the will of supporters in the general public and lead to more extreme polarization.
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