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  • Vow to Act - 1st Annual Report

    January 27, 2022
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    1st Annual Report - Published Jan. 27th, 2022 The Department of Government's Vow to Act requires that we hold ourselves accountable and publicly report on our progress annually for the next five years. The Vow was published online in July of 2020 and it was implemented beginning in the fall term 2020. This is the first of five annual reports that audit the Department's progress on the items in the Vow to Act. This report summarizes how the Department enacted or failed to enact the items in the Vow to Act between September 2020 and January 2022.

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  • Q&A with Government Professor and NH State House Representative Russell Muirhead

    January 19, 2022
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    Government professor and New Hampshire state representative Russell Muirhead, D-Hanover, has conducted extensive research on conspiracy theories, political partisanship and democracy. He is also a co-director of the Political Economy Project, an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to answer questions located at the intersection of politics, economics and ethics.  The Dartmouth sat down with Muirhead to reflect on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

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  • Politics Podcast: Why Jan. 6 Was Not A Turning Point

    January 10, 2022
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    Prof. Brendan Nyhan featured on the podcast "FiveThirtyEight" in an episode about the Jan. 6 insurrection. "We now see a greater partisan division in confidence in the 2022 election than we saw immediately prior to the 2020 election," Nyhan says.

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  • How Many Americans Support Political Violence?

    January 5, 2022
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    A "New York Times" story about the question of support for political violence in the U.S. a year after the Jan 6 insurrection cites a paper co-authored by government professor Sean Westwood that says documented support for such violence is "illusory, a product of ambiguous questions, conflated definitions, and disengaged respondents." Read the full article here!

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