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Interest Groups and Intra‐Party Conflict on Scored Votes

Legislative Studies Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While inter‐party conflicts and polarization are central for understanding policymaking, salient intra‐party conflicts remain. We explore one lens into these conflicts—interest groups scoring votes at odds with party leaders. We examine how often and under what conditions party‐aligned interest groups oppose the positions of party leadership ...
Laurel Harbridge‐Yong, Warren Snead
wiley   +1 more source

‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
wiley   +1 more source

Firearms Costs, Firearms Benefits and the Limits of Knowledge

The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 1995
America's intensifying dismay about violent crime has become so pervasive that one may well affirm that there is something of a "national crime crisis." Yet there is something of a puzzle as well. Overall crime rates in the United States have been falling for nearly twenty years.
openaire   +3 more sources

Understanding the Co‐Provision of Disaster‐Related Services in the United States: Universities and Colleges as Community Stakeholders

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A “whole community” strategy is central to disaster management and community resilience in the United States. However, the specific means by which community‐level stakeholders in the private and nonprofit sectors function as partners with government agencies in providing key disaster‐related services are currently underexamined.
Suyang Yu, Brian J. Gerber
wiley   +1 more source

State Policies Regulating Firearms and Changes in Firearm Mortality

JAMA Network Open
ImportanceDespite high social and public health costs of firearm violence in the United States, the effects of many policies designed to reduce firearm mortality remain uncertain.ObjectiveTo estimate the individual and joint effect sizes of state firearm policies on firearm-related mortality.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsIn this comparative ...
Schell, Terry L., Smart, Rosanna, Cefalu, Matthew, Griffin, Beth Ann, Morral, Andrew R.   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

At their fingertips: What is the impact of online reporting of domestic violence?

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Global reports indicate that 307 million women have suffered physical or sexual intimate partner violence during the last 12 months. Yet, chronic underreporting of domestic violence (DV) is still a reality in the United States and worldwide. The process of going to a police station and reporting DV is extremely burdensome, leading to numerous ...
Marylis C. Fantoni
wiley   +1 more source

How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Algorithms are disrupting established decision‐making practices in public administration. A key area of interest lies in algorithmic discretion or how public officials use algorithms to exercise discretion. The article develops a framework to explain algorithmic discretion by drawing on status quo bias theory and bureaucratic discretion.
Muhammad Afzal, Panos Panagiotopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of shifting societal attitudes toward women on capital markets and corporations: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement*

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, EarlyView.
Karl V. Lins, Lukas Roth, Henri Servaes, Ane Tamayo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Is Wrong with Imposing Risk of Harm?

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When and why is it wrong to impose a pure risk of harm on others? A pure risk of harm is a risk that fails to materialise into the harm that is threatened. It initially seems puzzling on what grounds a pure risk of harm can be wrong. There have been multiple attempts to explain the wrongness of imposing risk either by reference to the badness ...
Thomas Rowe
wiley   +1 more source

Rights: Facts, Evidence, or Beliefs?

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper considers whether rights hold due to the facts, the best available evidence to people, or people's actual beliefs. While there has been much discussion of this question in the context of what we ought to do, there is less discussion from a rights standpoint.
Joseph Bowen
wiley   +1 more source