Sentences with phrase «american political research»
Among think tanks quoted on NPR, the most citations were of the Brookings Institution, Kevin Phillips's American Political Research and the pro-business American Enterprise Institute — none known for leftist views.
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The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.
Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.
For instance, a 2014 Pew Research study found that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political views.
More Americans want more religion in politics, according to a new Pew Research Center study exploring the «growing appetite» for churches endorsing political candidates and other intersections of church and state.
Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.
The late Bruce Borthwick was professor emeritus of political science at Michigan's Albion College and was a senior research fellow at the American Center of Oriental Research, in Amman, Jordan, research fellow at the American Center of Oriental Research, in Amman, Jordan, Research, in Amman, Jordan, in 2002.
As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»
As Christianity Today notes, there was one large piece of irony in the research: A higher percentage of white evangelicals agreed with this question than American Muslims: «It is often or sometimes justified to target and kill civilians in order to further a political, social, or religious cause.»
They have come to realize that the campaigns against saturated fats and the tropical oils have been largely a political campaign, not a scientific one, and that American research has favored the newer vegetable oils produced since WWII with expeller - pressed technology that favors the hugely subsidized crops of soybeans and corn.
The poll, conducted for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Food Policy Action Network by Lake Research Partners, surveyed over 1,000 adult Americans of all ages and political leanings.
* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
American Association for Political Opinion Research defines a «push poll» as a form of negative campaigning that is disguised as a politiPolitical Opinion Research defines a «push poll» as a form of negative campaigning that is disguised as a politicalpolitical poll.
Her research focuses on American Political Development, federalism, public policymaking, education, religion and politics, and the methodology of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).
He is the author of «Barriers to Peace in Civil Wars», which was published by Cambridge University Press, as well as articles in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research.
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«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.
By way of clarification, a push poll is not a poll at all but rather, as detailed by the American Association of Public Opinion Research, a political telemarketing technique where telephone calls are used to canvass the electorate, providing them with inaccurate information in the guise of a poll.
Nearly two - thirds of registered voters nationwide received the recorded telephone messages, which as political calls are exempt from federal do - not - call rules, leading up to the November elections, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, an independent research group.
American Political Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rightPolitical Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rightpolitical, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.
«A strong caution against attaching too much weight to polls of public opinion, particularly concerning political issues, has been expressed by Leo Bogart, president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
The most rigorous piece of social science research on what happens to such veterans when they return looked at people from conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and other jihadist battlefronts (American Political Science Review, vol 107, p 1).
The ANES collects data on Americans» social backgrounds, political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, and other issues, according to the ICPSR, a data archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences where the studies are accessible.
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About Blog The American Journal of Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science political science research.
Cannabis Science Inc. (CBIS) and Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center (DF / HCC) Announce Joint Research and Drug Development Agreement; Collaborative Research Dana Bash (/ ˈ d æ n ə / DAN - ah; born Dana Ruth Schwartz; June 15, 1971) is an American journalist, anchorwoman and political correspondent for CNN.
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About Blog The American Journal of Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science political science research.
Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.
In 2013, it was awarded the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, the Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and a Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association.
On March 22, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the American Association of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) held a Capitol Hill briefing on public schooling in the age of inequality, featuring several prominent researchers.
During a Senate subcommittee hearing last week on research in vocational education, Marla Peterson, dean for research at the University of Tennessee, claimed that last year's bidding process on the national center's contract was unfairly affected by «the direct political action» of the American...
In the past two years, the book has won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, the Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, a Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association, and the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award.
Research both on the political left (Rothstein and Center for American Progress) and the political right (the American Enterprise Institute) tend to agree.
«Gener [ous], intellectual, and personal» in the eyes of Suzanne and many others, Lee voiced his «intellectual and political support of institutions like... the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University, Division K within the American Educational Research Association, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.»
Mike McShane, who researches education policy for the American Enterprise Institute, says restrictive collective bargaining laws have weakened teachers unions to a degree, but they remain a powerful political force.
A teacher can give students choices about how they express what they learn during a research exercise — providing options, for example, of creating a political cartoon, writing a letter to the editor, or making a diagram as a way of expressing what they understand about relations between the British and colonists at the onset of the American Revolution.
About Blog The American Journal of Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science political science research.
Her research is situated at the intersection of literary studies, studies of contemporary visual arts and aesthetics, and the study of leftist political and social movements, bringing together contemporary U.S. Latino / a and Latin American cultural production within a hemispheric framework.
Her research explores the role of African - American literature in the creation of radical Black political consciousness, particularly as it relates to local elections and Democratic populism during the Progressive Era.
Her research areas include Critical Racial and Ethnic Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Legal Theory, Political Theory, Moral Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies.
... For example, even though I have undertaken several research visits to the US, and have been privileged to visit many artist studios, and to collect a significant amount of material on African - American artists, I have yet to see examples of work that in any way deals with the hostile political realities of life for Black people in Britain.
The show, a collaborative effort between LACMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, thoughtfully explores the way in which Latino and Latin American artists have used elements of the domestic to comment on issues of the personal and the political in art.
In addition to contributions by the directors of the Museum Ludwig and ARoS — Yilmaz Dziewior and Erlend G. Høyersten — the authors include Tom Holert, distinguished German art historian, taking an in - depth look at Rosenquist's unique spatiality; Stephan Diederich, curator and specialist at Museum Ludwig, giving a review of the themes in the exhibition; Sarah Bancroft, art historian, curator, and Rosenquist expert who co-curated the 2003 Guggenheim Museum Rosenquist retrospective (and current head of the Rosenquist Foundation and the studio) illuminates Rosenquist's seminal source collages; Tino Grass, German designer and researcher, revealing new perspectives on Rosenquist's historic work F - 111; Isabel Gebhardt, Museum Ludwig conservator, outlining the intensive research efforts and conservation work recently undertaken on Horse Blinders; and Tim Griffin, former editor - in - chief of the esteemed American art journal Artforum, discussing the political potential of Pop art as exemplified by a work James Rosenquist created for one of the magazine's issues.
The first major survey of contemporary Guatemalan art in the United States — and as much a political and social history as an art history — it is just one of more than 70 deeply researched exhibitions of Latin American and Latinx art at Southern California institutions comprising the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA, a four - month - long program that aims at nothing less than «flipping the history of modern and contemporary art, beginning with the Latino perspective,» as Getty Foundation deputy director Joan Weinstein put it.
In the current political climate, Robin Bell, a research professor at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, and president - elect of the American Geophysical Union, said scientists need to ``... continue to articulate how science is key to what the new administration cares about: intelligent investment in infrastructure, national security, public health.
A RESEARCH paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon against global warming.
Charting the evolution and confirmation of the theory, Spencer R. Weart, director of the Center for the History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, dissects the interwoven threads of research and reveals the political and societal subtexts that colored scientists» views and the public reception their work received.
China University of Political Science and Law Press, a leading legal publisher in China, just published a bilingual (English and Chinese) legal research textbook based on West's Analysis of American Law / Key Number System and WestlawNext.
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