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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"Should fairness to political parties be the standard for evaluating legislative redistricting? Across the nation, state lawmakers are jockeying to advantage their party – be it Republican or Democratic – while drawing boundaries for legislative and congressional districts. If the Freedom to Vote Act currently before Congress passes, many state maps that favor one party will become illegal.
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Students have been working hard to find interesting topics and have carefully designed their studies to test empirical hypotheses this term in Prof. Horiuchi's GOVT 10:Quantitative Political Analysis.
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