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Can riots represent? A democratic theory

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
wiley   +1 more source

The electoral politics of immigration and crime

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes and voting behavior due to educational realignment.
Jeyhun Alizade
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond encampments: an evidence-based path to solving Canada's homelessness crisis. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Karamouzian M, Hwang SW, Werb D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do voters often remain loyal to ethnic parties despite receiving little in terms of material welfare? I develop a theory focused on the role of dignity concerns in explaining within‐group variation in ethnic party loyalty. Group members who face discrimination from state agencies dominated by outgroups respond with defiant pride, which ...
Mashail Malik
wiley   +1 more source

Built environmental characteristics, physical activity, diet, and nutritional status in Accra, Ghana: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Effah ES, Nai A, Bárdos H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source

Crime opportunity theory: the state of the art. [PDF]

Crime Sci
Farrell G, Tilley N.
europepmc   +1 more source

The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson, Asya Magazinnik, Melissa Sands   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptation and validation of the neighbourhood environment walkability scale for German-speaking youth (NEWS-Y-G). [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Scheller DA, Humpe A, Mess F, Nogueira de Zorzi V, Rech CR, Bachner J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Problems in comparing tobacco regulatory models and excise when only two countries are considered

Addiction, EarlyView.
Simon Chapman, Sam Egger, Becky Freeman
wiley   +1 more source