Finding polarized communities and tracking information diffusion on Twitter: a network approach on the Irish Abortion Referendum. [PDF]
R Soc Open SciPena CB, MacCarron P, O'Sullivan DJP.
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The recent decriminalization of abortion marked a crucial step toward improved reproductive care on the island of Ireland. However, this has not translated into fully accessible abortion provision—barriers, including inaccessible services, persist, leaving gaps that public administration has not formally addressed. In response, informal actors,
Anna Theresa Schmid
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Testing for the footprints of stabilization economic policy in forecast errors. [PDF]
PLoS OneCharemza W +4 more
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We Are Our Memory: A Flexible Framework for Quantifying the Demographic Imprints of the Past
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Populations have demographic connections to the past: people who were exposed to the past may still be alive or may at least have living kin. Denton and Spencer and Alburez‐Gutierrez have recently articulated the concept of “demographic memory” to refer to the way in which the memory of single events lingers in populations through their age or
Hampton Gaddy
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Risk formulation mechanism among top global energy companies under large shocks. [PDF]
PLoS OneQi X, Zhao T.
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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
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We are not doing enough: Truth-telling and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history in Australian Public Health. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthGaray J +7 more
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Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract American subnational governments commonly require voters to approve bond proposals, reflecting historical concerns about legislative shortsightedness. Yet voters need an understanding of how bond financing works to make choices consistent with preferences. Existing literature makes it unclear whether voters have such knowledge.
Shanna Pearson‐Merkowitz +3 more
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Trading-off health safety, civil liberties, and unemployment based on communication strategies: the social dilemma in fighting pandemics. [PDF]
PLoS OneVeseli B, Seifert R, Clement M, Shehu E.
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The Power of Renewal: Status Quo Bias Impacts Voter Approval of School Spending Referendums
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Status quo bias often impacts decisions about private goods and is hypothesized to influence voter choice. This paper offers a clean, direct, real‐world test of status quo bias's effect on voter support for school spending. We take advantage of a unique Minnesota rule that requires ballot language to disclose and distinguish between new and ...
Corey Lang, Rachel Ricchio
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