Pew Research: Partisan polarization surges in Bush, Obama years
…people who can’t take care of themselves”; in 2012, only 40% of Republicans thought it should. Views on the environment are as divided as those on the social safety net;…
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Does blogging empower women? Exploring the role of agency and community
…not render one truly empowered to change one’s circumstances. There is reason to believe, however, that psychological empowerment is likely to lead to actions toward changing one’s environment.” A related…
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New views on urban communities and poverty in the United States
…data from the New York Social Environment Study (n = 4,000), a representative study of residents of New York, New York, conducted in 2005. Neighborhood collective efficacy was measured as…
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Beyond guns and god: The complexities of the white working class in America
…two-thirds (64%) of white college-educated Americans support tougher laws and regulations to protect the environment even if it raises prices or costs jobs. White working-class Americans, by contrast, are divided…
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Bullying in a networked era: Research views on scope and frequency of cyberbullying
…distress, negative views of their school environment, missing school and having lower grades. “A national survey of 5,621 youth ages 12-18 found that 64% of all respondents who experienced offline…
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Tax policy, economic growth and deficit solutions: Research roundup
…net wage is equal to that available elsewhere. The current empirical findings go beyond confirming this long-run tendency and show that gross wages adjust rapidly to the changing tax environment….
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U.S. residents, how they commute and what it costs
…Showers and Free Car Parking at Work” Buehler, Ralph. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, October 2012, Vol. 17, Issue 7. doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2012.06.003. Abstract: “This article examines the role…
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Cold weather problems and risks: Research roundup
…and ice environment are analyzed, such as the instant traffic flow, the distribution of headway time, and the properties of the speed distribution. The relation models of speed-volume are built….
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Research chat: Rajiv Chandrasekaran on conflict-zone and military reporting
…are incredibly dangerous, challenging environments. It is far better to sharpen your skills in what the military would call a “less kinetic” environment before trying to go out to a…
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Intervention in Syria, the media and public opinion: Research chat with Harvard’s Matt Baum
…there is not much consideration of what comes next. This can lead to a failure to think through the post-conflict, or post-regime, consequences and environment. Matt Baum: The press, in…
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