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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"The story of democratic erosion in other countries is that it happens invisibly, you don't have this tanks-in-the-streets moment," the government professor tells "The New Yorker" in an article about the U.S. House select committee's investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Read the full article here.
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Prof Brendan Nyhan Quoted in recent NPR interview. Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College, said Democrats are repeating a familiar pattern for the party by hoping to pass a massive government overhaul and explain it to voters later.
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Prof Horiuchi asks, in regards to the Japanese 2021 election, do the electrion results reflect the support and disapproval of the manifests created by each party? Read the full article published by Nikkei Business in Japanese here.
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Research from Harvard's Yon Soo Park and Dartmouth's Benjamin Valentino shows that concern for human suffering and concern for animal suffering is not zero-sum — in fact, where you find one, you tend to find the other.
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