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Senate Journal Volume 20

open access: yes
The Journal of the Senate of the State of Delaware from 1861, pages 1 through ...
Senate
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Mitigating policy uncertainty: What financial markets reveal about firm‐level lobbying

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Elections can lead to substantial policy changes and, thus, are a significant source of risk. Firms can respond to such policy uncertainty by lobbying, but it is hard to quantify whether they do so and, if so, how much lobbying benefits them. We construct a new dataset and leverage investors’ expectations of variability in stock returns in the
Kristy Buzard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partisan bias in a sorted party system: A problem of epistemic inequality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Normative and empirical scholars typically treat partisans’ distrust of their political rivals as a product of individual cognitive biases. But even if bias is inevitable, it is parties’ coalition‐building and messaging strategies that determine who bias is directed toward.
Justin Pottle
wiley   +1 more source

Learning traps

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract When constituents are uncertain about whether leaders' policy preferences align with their interests, policy choices generate a trade‐off between payoffs and information. Leaders can experiment with their preferred policy, but if the outcome is bad, constituents learn this and threaten office removal. I use a repeated model of political agency
Hassan Sayed
wiley   +1 more source

Structure and agency in emancipatory reform: A blueprint from a Black union

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The National Labor Convention of 1869, the first of its kind for African American workers, yielded a grand strategy for achieving full emancipation, in which those long subjected to domination might attain durable independence. Drawing upon decades of Black republican thought, this agenda combined macro‐level reforms targeting agrarian and ...
Benjamin T. Lynerd
wiley   +1 more source

Can citizen election observation increase public confidence in US elections?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonpartisan citizen election observation plays an important role in promoting the credibility of electoral processes around the world. This article assesses whether nonpartisan observation can shape attitudes among the US public, randomizing information about nonpartisan domestic observers in a series of survey experiments fielded to nearly 10,
Jennie Barker, Oren Samet, Susan D. Hyde
wiley   +1 more source

Senate Journal Volume 22

open access: yes
The Journal of the Senate of the State of Delaware from 1865, pages 1 through ...
Senate
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

VSED Should Not Be a Pathway to MAiD (Though Both Are Ethically Permissible)

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent changes in aid in dying laws have led some to argue for a pathway from Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). Proponents point to the Sontag case as demonstrating the efficacy of the practice. This article first provides an overview of the development of the practice of VSED and MAiD and provides
D. B. Davison
wiley   +1 more source

Only Your Mind Sets the Limits: Socio‐Cognitive Pathways between Growth Mindset and Reading Achievement Across Nordic and Chinese Educational Systems

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Mindset theory has increasingly shifted from asking whether growth mindsets predict achievement to asking how, for whom, and under what conditions beliefs about intelligence become motivationally consequential. Aims This study contributes to that theoretical shift by examining mindset as a distal belief embedded within a broader ...
Kajsa Yang Hansen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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