More than half of residents surveyed in three Michigan communities believe significant events occur without public knowledge—a sentiment of government suspicion closely tied to conspiratorial thinking, according to a University ...
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2025
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New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, governments and political parties, has been declining in democratic countries around the world.
Political science
Feb 19, 2025
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A new report by academics at Royal Holloway has highlighted the scale of obstruction major social media platforms are creating for researchers looking into political online safety. The work is published in the SocArXiv.
Political science
Jan 22, 2025
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Economic concerns motivated many voters to go to the polls in 2024, but they were even bigger priorities for young Americans who did not vote, according to a new poll conducted by the Center for Information & Research on ...
Economics & Business
Jan 22, 2025
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"The news media is the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic and political institutions involved in the democratic process," the polling firm Gallup concluded in a 2024 analysis.
Social Sciences
Jan 6, 2025
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Trust in Britain's institutions is in bad shape, according to recent data from the European Social Survey.
Social Sciences
Dec 25, 2024
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For the third year in a row, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be hosted by an authoritarian state that sells fossil fuels. This week the 29th "conference of the parties," COP29, is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan. ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2024
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A study published in Journal of Politics in Latin America provides a critical assessment of how recent social, political, and economic crises have influenced the institutional infrastructure of democracies in Latin America. ...
Political science
Nov 11, 2024
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As we near the end of a "mega election" year in which as many as 2 billion people will cast ballots globally, concerns about the health of democracy are growing. Among the most frequently cited threats to democratic systems ...
Political science
Oct 29, 2024
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The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.
Economics & Business
Oct 14, 2024
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