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#WomenAlsoKnowStuff: Founder Samara Klar Talks Importance of Sharing Women Experts

Samara Klar (Ph.D. Northwestern University) uses experimental and survey methodology to study how individuals’ social surroundings and personal identities influence their political attitudes and behavior.  Her coauthored book, Independent Politics, was published by Cambridge University Press […]

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Gaus Lecture: The New Guerrilla Government

The New Guerrilla Government:  How Big Data, Hyper Social Media and Contracting Out Are Changing the Ethics of Dissent Friday, September 2, 6:30 t0 7:30 PM The John Gaus Award and Lectureship honors the recipient’s […]

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Teaching Race and Revolution: Doing Justice to Women’s Roles in the Struggle for Civil Rights

By Rosalyn Cooperman (University of Mary Washington), Melina Patterson (University of Mary Washington) and Jess Rigelhaupt (University of Mary Washington) This paper describes a freshman seminar, Race and Revolution, which examines the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on […]

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Standard Operating Procedures: A Safety Net for Pre-Analysis Plans

By Winston Lin (Columbia University) and Donald P. Green (Columbia University) “Fishing” and “file drawer” problems undercut the credibility of published empirical research. The fishing problem is that with unlimited discretion in data analysis, researchers may consciously or […]