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Multisectoral Convergence of Food, Nutrition and Sanitation Programs for Child Health: Evidence From Country‐Level Programs in India

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper underscores the critical role of multisectoral convergence in enhancing child health, particularly in addressing anemia, a micronutrient deficiency linked to both diet and sanitation. We explore how the integration of nationwide food and nutrition programs with sanitation initiatives impacts anemia in Indian children under three ...
Soumya Gupta, Payal Seth, Prabhu Pingali
wiley   +1 more source

Who cares about polar regions? Results from a survey of U.S. public opinion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
What do members of the general public know about polar regions, and how much do they care? Who knows or cares? This paper explores data from the General Social Survey (GSS), which in 2006 questioned a representative sample of more than 1800 U.S.
Hamilton, Lawrence C.
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Televised Presidential Debates and Learning in the 2012 Korean Presidential Election: Does Political Knowledge Condition Information Acquisition?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2015
This study examines the effects of watching TV debates on voters’ learning. Analyzing panel survey data conducted in the 2012 South Korean presidential election, we test whether voters learn about candidates through viewing presidential debates.
Han Soo Lee, Jae Mook Lee
doaj  

What prevents knowledge inequalities among citizens from increasing? Evidence from direct-democratic campaigns in Switzerland

open access: yesStudies in Communication Sciences, 2018
This article seeks to enrich the normative debate on the advantages and drawbacks of direct democracy through an empirical analysis of individual learning about the contents of ballot propositions during campaigns.
Laurent Bernhard
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Populism and Political Knowledge: The United States in Comparative Perspective

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2020
This article addresses the link between political knowledge and populist attitudes in the United States (US) in comparative perspective. At the beginning of the new decade, populism in the US is associated with support for the Republican party and Donald
Henry Milner
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Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
wiley   +1 more source

What Citizens Know Depends on How You Ask Them: Political Knowledge and Political Learning Skills [PDF]

open access: yes
Surveys provide widely-cited measures of political knowledge. Do unusual aspects of survey interviews reduce their relevance? To address this question, we embedded a set of experiments in a representative survey of over 1200 Americans.
Lupia, Arthur, Prior, Markus
core   +1 more source

From outside of ethics: Moss, Sarah. Probabilistic Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Book Review published in the From Outside of Ethics section of Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy. Moss, Sarah. Probabilistic Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 288. $54.00 (cloth)
Smartt, Timothy
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From workers education to societal competencies: approaches to a critical, emancipatory education for democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article presents two conceptions concerning critical political education for workers, developed in Germany in the 1960s and the 1990s respectively.
Zeuner, Christine
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