A new study conducted by faculty members Margit Tavits, Christopher Lucas, Jacob Montgomery, and former PhD students Dahjin Kim and Taishi Muraoka, takes on the Herculean task of studying the linguistic choices of more than 800 political parties from 87 democracies around the world, including the United States.
The award, given by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, seeks to recognize influential books that have stimulated theoretical and scientific research in public opinion and/or influenced our understanding or application of survey research methodology.
The prestigious award provides Strawbridge a $200,000 research stipend for his project, "In the Thick of It: The Relationship Among Black People, Black Spaces, and Black Political Unity".
The Excellence in Teaching Award, formerly known as the Distinguished Teaching Award, was established to honor and publicly recognize an outstanding faculty member in Arts & Sciences for exceptional teaching. The award is determined by student nominations.
“We want to acknowledge that AI is out there in the world, but we also want our students to think about who they are,” Sinclair said.
The article describes a thus far unexplored consequence of globalization pressures: the place-based nature of globalization pressures reinforces local identity and moves voters towards candidates with local ties, especially when they hit key industries in local economic clusters.
The article utilizes research from 12 democracies to examine gender-quotas in world legislatures.
The article focuses on a key question that has become more common in modern media criticism: When journalists perceive more misinformation from one side of the political spectrum, do they face a normative dilemma between truth and balance?
The award is given each year to "the best paper presented by a political scientist on women, gender and Black Politics at a national or regional Political Science conference in the past academic year."
The article, titled "How Lego Became a Go-To Meme of the Propaganda Wars," discusses recent AI propaganda videos utilizing Lego characters addressing the war between Iran and the US.