Contrary to conventional wisdom, my analysis provides evidence that social media usage reduces mass political polarization.Pablo BarberáBarbera, P. 2014. How social media reduces mass political polarization: Evidence from Germany, Spain, and the United States. http://pablobarbera.com/static/barbera- ...
How to Reduce Income Inequality Dispersions of income inequality are an ongoing area of analysis for both local and global governing institutions. The IMF and World Bank have a goal to help improve the income of the lowest 10% of earners in all countries through their missions relating to finan...
arative Perspective How Does Political Polarization Distort the Marketplace of Ideas? A Theory from a Comparative PerspectiveHow Does Political Polarization Distort the Marketplace of Ideas? A Theory from a Comparative PerspectiveHsu, Jimmy ChiaShin...
Corporate political spending directed toward partisan committees of any kind needs to be eliminated, according to Strine. Instead, he suggests companies “give political contributions to nonpartisan organizations, including the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and...
What emerges isn’t so much a picture of companies retreating from their core values and social and environmental commitments, but of companies recalibrating when and how to make their voices heard in an era of political polarization and viral social-media echo chambers. Instead of publicly reactin...
Decarbonisation of the energy system, considered essential to reduce climate change, has gained major importance worldwide (Paris Agreement COP21, United Nations, 2015a; Agenda 2030, United Nations, 2015b) and seems to be indisputable and beyond any doubt (Loorbach et al., 2017). However, ...
Certainly, many opponents of gun control measures also argue that efforts to restrict gun ownership could backfire in various ways or will otherwise fail to reduce violence. But broadly speaking, they would prefer that the debate be about what they see as Constitutional rights, rather than the ...
(see Table3in Appendix) potentially correlated with desire to call the police as reflected in the theoretical discussion and literature reviewed earlier. The order of responses for these questions, when possible, was randomized to reduce anchoring biases (e.g., political views, urbanicity, public ...
There’s an approach to political questions that the conservative in me rebels against. Let’s call it the “You can’t have too much of a good thing” fallacy. Virtually every popular idea in American life has cheerleaders for this fallacy. You’ve surely heard someone say something...
In Punjab, India, where performance was below poor, leaders used Teaching at the Right Level to group students by level rather than age to reduce targeted learning gaps in primary school. Leaders used simple, quick one-on-one assessments to group students into levels at ...