U.S. Congress members' social circles are more important in how they vote than their liberal or conservative beliefs or constituents' opinions, according to a new model of voting behavior created by Dartmouth College researchers.
Social Sciences
May 26, 2015
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(AP) -- Think you might do better than President Barack Obama and congressional leaders in picking and choosing what government spending to cut - or taxes to raise - to stave off a debt showdown that could wreck the economy? ...
Software
Jul 14, 2011
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John Abromeit, associate professor of history and social studies education, is an intellectual historian; he studies the history of ideas. One such idea is populism, a widely used term that is hard to define.
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2017
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At the large public housing project in New York City where he lived, outsiders knew him as a quiet family man. But federal prosecutors say Hector Xavier Monsegur was an Internet saboteur known as Sabu.
Internet
Mar 8, 2012
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Overtly racially motivated rhetoric is becoming increasingly acceptable in Republican politics in the US. Two Italian researchers now argue that this can partly be traced back to the conservative Tea Party movement which ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2018
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Three Northeastern University faculty members with expertise in different fields of study—political analysis, public speaking and presidential debates— assess last night's debate between Vice President ...
Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2012
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