Professor Sean Westwood's paper, "Projecting Confidence: How the Problematic Horse Race Confuses and Demobilizes the Public" was cited in reports by Pew and the Washington Post.
Abstract: Horse race coverage in American elections has shifted focus from late-breaking poll numbers to sophisticated meta analytic forecasts that often emphasize candidates' probability of victory. We place this "probabilistic...
[more]Senior Government and QSS major, Alexander Agadjanian along with his co-author published their aritcle, "Democrats are Changing Their Minds About Race, and the Youth are Leading the Way," in New York Magazine.
Congratulatons to Professor Jeremy Ferwerda, whose latest article "Improving Refugee Integration Through Data Driven Algorithmic Assignment" will be featured on the front cover of Science.
Abstract:
The continuing refugee crisis has made it necessary for governments to find ways to resettle individuals and families in host communities. Bansak et al. used a machine learning approach to develop an...
[more]The grant ensures the continued operation of the Program in Politics and Law and enables it to award undergraduate student fellowships during the 2017-2018 academic year.
Hanover, N.H. (November 6, 2017) – The Sphinx Foundation is pleased to announce the award of a $12,500 grant to the Program in Politics & Law, a uniquely successful...
[more]Professor Brendan Nyhan and recent graduate, Clara Wang '17 have published Critical Dynamics in Population Vaccinating Behavior in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Abstract: Vaccine refusal can lead to renewed outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases and even delay global eradication. Vaccinating decisions exemplify a complex, coupled system where vaccinating behavior and disease...
[more]In this essay in the French foreign policy journal Politique étrangère, Professor Lind examines the roots and remedy of the populist backlash to the liberal international order. English version here: https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/politique-etrangere/articles-de-politique-etrangere/saving-liberal-order-itself .
Professor of Government, Yusaku Horichi's recent article, "Why Should the Republicans Pray for Rain? Electoral Consequences of Rainfall Revisited," has been publised in a recent edition of American Politics Reserach.
Abstract: Existing studies—most importantly, Gomez, Hansford, and Krause—provide empirical support for an idea often embraced by popular media: The vote share of the Republican...
[more]Professor Friedman's paper, "Analytic Confidence and Political Decision-Making: Theoretical Principles and Experimental Evidence from National Security Professionals," has been published in a recent editoin of Politial Psychology.
Abstract: When making decisions under uncertainty, it is important to distinguish between the probability that a judgment is true and the confidence analysts possess...
[more]Dartmouth Alum and Government Major, Alex Azar has been nominated to run the Department of Health and Human services.
The full press release may be found here.