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Hear Me Out: A Lesson in Civil Discourse
Abstract This article describes an innovative and engaging lecture and class exercise designed to teach students how to think critically about issues from different perspectives and communicate effectively with those who disagree with them. The interactive lecture and class exercise introduce a civil discourse framework to encourage constructive ...
Cheryl L. Black
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Any old Tom, Dick, or Harry: The citation impact of author first name genderedness
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between the genderedness of authors' first names and citation distributions in US‐affiliated scholarly production from 2010 to 2019. Merging a first name genderedness table derived from Wikidata with Web of Science publication data, we develop a relative distributional framework that compares first name ...
Maxime Holmberg Sainte‐Marie +1 more
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ABSTRACT The US federal government has enacted sweeping policy changes since January 2025 that imperil public health, with important implications for the eating disorders field—a field that is already disproportionately under‐resourced. This paper examines the pathways through which these recent policy changes threaten progress in eating disorder ...
Ariel L. Beccia +3 more
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Books About Banned Books: What Does Today's Fiction Teach Adolescents About Censorship?
ABSTRACT This study examines how censorship and book banning are represented in contemporary middle‐grade and young adult literature through a qualitative content analysis of 20 novels published between 1980 and 2025. This study asks: What are the descriptive characteristics of this body of books and how do these fictional portrayals reflect or diverge
Leah Day, Lauren Aimonette Liang
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn +2 more
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Political Partisanship and State‐Level Bank Efficiency
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between political partisanship and commercial bank efficiency in the United States from 1972 to 2020, assessing the persistent influence of political affiliations at the state and District of Columbia levels. Bank efficiency scores are estimated using a double‐bootstrap approach, and the analysis is conducted within
Jeremy Eng‐Tuck Cheah +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the rise and function of anti‐Afghans immigrant digital movements in Iran and Pakistan, specifically #افغانی_نمک_حراموں_کو_بھگاو (#ExpelUngratefulAfghans) in Pakistan and #اخراج_افغانی_مطالبه_ملی (‘Expelling Afghans is a national demand’) in Iran, focusing on their development and impact from 2023 to 2025.
Arash Beidollahkhani
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Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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Party and Prejudice: Are Asian American Candidates Better Suited to Win in White Districts?
ABSTRACT Recent work on Asian American descriptive representation has found that Asian American officeholders are more prevalent in racially diverse districts when compared to Black or Latino representatives, but still face substantial obstacles in very white electoral districts.
Eric Gonzalez Juenke +2 more
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Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
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