Political Ideology and Trust in Government to Ensure Vaccine Safety: Using a U.S. Survey to Explore the Role of Political Trust. [PDF]
Lim J, Moon KK.
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Trust in government: What’s news media got to do with it?
In modern democracies, trust in government is a key indicator of political legitimacy and stability. Drawing from theories of media effects, we investigated whether using traditional media has a negative (media malaise hypothesis) or a positive (virtuous
Frank Marcinkowski, Christopher Starke
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Institutions matter: The impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans. [PDF]
Bottasso A, Cerruti G, Conti M.
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Intention to consume news via personal social media network and political trust among young people: The evidence from Hong Kong. [PDF]
Zhang Y +4 more
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ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
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The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Busemeyer MR.
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ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
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Inoculation works and health advocacy backfires: Building resistance to COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in a low political trust context. [PDF]
Jiang LC, Sun M, Chu TH, Chia SC.
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