Political Science

President-elect Donald Trump is entering the White House with an ambitious day one agenda of executive orders and policies, chief among them a mass deportation plan that would target millions of undocumented immigrants.This post was […]

Presidents need science advice. From climate change and pandemics to the governance of AI and the country’s nuclear arsenal, science sits at the center of a range of foreign and domestic policy challenges that reach […]

Research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science illuminates why liberals and conservatives often support different types of leaders. The study shows that these preferences stem from differences in moral priorities rather than mere partisan […]

Tackling radicalization among young people is a complex issue in which government authorities may choose to apply legal measures. Ph.D. student Nina van Capelleveen examined the risks such legal instruments can pose to the fundamental […]

The majority of politically active individuals experience digital violence. The results of a study conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in cooperation with the human rights organization HateAid show that around two-thirds of […]

Across 28 countries in Africa, armed conflict within 25 kilometers of a female primary school student’s household is associated with a reduction in schooling of 0.38 years by the time she reaches adolescence—while male students […]

An analysis of the nine top players in the U.S. fossil fuel-derived hydrocarbon industries (oil/gas, plastics, and agrichemicals) shows tight linkages across the three different sectors, with news media, other petrochemical industry players, and politicians […]

Are you better off than you were before the last election?This post was originally published on this site

Social media bots are exerting significant influence on the political discourse in Canada and could negatively impact democratic processes if left unchecked, a McMaster researcher warns.This post was originally published on this site

With Uncle Sam running chronic trillion-dollar deficits, one proposal to increase revenue has been to raise it from the wealthiest Americans: through a tax, not on their yearly income, but on their accumulated wealth.This post […]