Contemporary hate crimes, law enforcement and the legacy of racial violence
2009 paper published in the American Sociological Association on links between historical lynching and contemporary hate crimes.
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of politics, elections, and local and national governments
2009 paper published in the American Sociological Association on links between historical lynching and contemporary hate crimes.
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2009 study in the journal Criminology on the racial makeup of neighborhoods and trends in racial profiling.
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2012 study published in American Politics Research on how the health care reform roll-call vote may have hurt Democrats.
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2012 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the effects of social networks in the 2011 uprising in Egypt.
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2012 study by the University of Toronto on the relationship between the skills used in a job and the salary for that job in a city of a given size.
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2012 report based on 850 surveys from 130 countries, covering 1.23 million households and providing a statistical snapshot of some 90% of the population of the developing world.
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2010 study from the Harvard School of Public Health on the relative safety of on-street bicycle lanes and physically separated cycle tracks.
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A 2011 study in the American Journal of Political Science on the effectiveness of negative campaign tactics.
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2011 United Nations report on the ecological and economic impacts of electrical and electronics equipment recycling and disposal practices in West Africa.
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2012 New America Foundation report on cognitive and psychological phenomena that make the task of journalistic corrections difficult.
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