Political Science

Money talks, and new research from Northwestern University suggests that it often speaks louder than an American voter’s commitment to democratic norms.This post was originally published on this site

An international project investigating the form, content and consequences of online conspiracy theories has found that in German-speaking countries, such theories often originate locally and have come to form a complex ecosystem of alternative news […]

A new study on how U.S. defense attorneys think about autism and use strategies informed by neurodiversity in their work finds that attorneys saw autism through a medical lens and acknowledged the need for better […]

A new study has concluded that in New Jersey’s largest city, crime was concentrated significantly around corner stores compared with other commercial venues. The study’s findings have implications for crime prevention, urban planning, and community […]

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there’s a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence local politics to benefit their operations.This post was originally published on this site

More than two years of war in Gaza have left many Palestinian children too weak to learn or play and convinced they will be “killed for being Gazans,” a new report warns. The University of […]

Two things are clear from a University of Michigan analysis of nearly 200,000 Twitter posts between 2012 and 2022. One, people are really good at identifying peak pollen season: The largest volume of tweets about […]

Older adults tend to do well at identifying falsehoods in experiments, but they’re also likelier than younger adults to like and share misinformation online.This post was originally published on this site

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a tool that measures when people engage in dialog across political divides. The results show that personal factors play a greater role in people’s willingness to engage […]

Donald Trump joked in 2016 that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose support. In 2024, after two impeachments and 34 felony convictions, he has more or […]