How do black people channel their anger about racial injustice? Here’s what we found. Ismail K. White, Brian D. McKenzie, and Antoine J. Banks - June 28, 2020 They’re most likely to look first to protests and black-focused groups, not electoral politics.
Obama is right. The Floyd protests will change public policy. Daniel Q. Gillion - June 9, 2020 Protests from the 1960s civil rights movement to the 1991 Los Angeles riots changed policies, my research finds
Under Trump, Democrats and Republicans have never been more divided — on nearly everything Larry Bartels - May 20, 2020 And they are holding tightly to their party identities
What would Hobbes say about the pandemic? Governments should protect lives — and help the poor. David Lay Williams - May 17, 2020 When a government fails to take seriously its mandate to protect the lives of its citizens, it flirts with inviting violent revolution, chaos and mass casualties, in his view.
Where are people less likely to obey coronavirus restrictions? Republican counties. Keena Lipsitz and Grigore Pop-Eleches - May 12, 2020 That’s especially true in counties with lower education levels
These three governors are reopening their states faster than their voters want Matthew Baum, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer - April 28, 2020 That’s what our polling found in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee
If you’re worried that Russian bots are brainwashing the world, take a deep breath Henry Farrell - February 23, 2020 A new book on cognitive psychology explains that people aren’t nearly as gullible or easily swayed as the media would have you think.
93 percent of Confederate monuments are still standing. Here’s why. Tyler Camarillo, Tyler Johnson, Ray Block, Jr., Kathleen Tipler, Julian J. Wamble, Jared Clemons, Chryl N. Laird, and Andrea Benjamin - December 16, 2019 Local governments are often banned from removing them
If you’re surprised by what’s in the Afghanistan Papers, you haven’t been paying attention Jason Lyall - December 12, 2019 In these five key areas, scholarly research could have helped policymakers and strategists make better decisions
30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, some former Soviet-controlled countries are dismantling democracy. What happened? Pauline Jones and Anna Grzymala-Busse - November 8, 2019 How did Russia, populism and ‘illiberal democracy’ creep back in?