Sentences with phrase «in political research»

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Both papers were randomized control trials (RCTs), the gold standard in political research.

Christine Cheng has recently co-published an article with Margit Tavits in Political Research Quarterly arguing that female party presidents in Canada are more likely to nominate female party candidates.

Not exact matches

In an era where objective information is routinely strangled by political partisans and public - relations departments, central bankers stand out for their commitment to research and rational thought.

Last month, Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian election meddling, charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, including the Internet Research Agency, with «violating US criminal laws in order to interfere with US elections and political processes.»

She has a master's in international political economy from the London School of Economics and is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Mumbai, India.

«Macron has tried to strike a fine political balance to maximize his chances of building a majority, while making sure the new government has enough competent figures to launch reforms,» Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence, said in a note.

U.S. President Donald Trump is unlikely to be impeached anytime soon, but the current political turmoil will derail his pro-growth agenda, Nomura said in a research note Wednesday.

«It is also a tacit admission that her government needs to improve the atmosphere around the Article 50 negotiations,» Mujtaba Rahman, Europe director of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, said in a research note.

«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.

According to indictments announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last week, the event was one of many that were boosted by operatives with the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll factory that was tasked with sowing political discord in the US.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

Campaigns gather research on rival candidates, which results in valuable stockpiles of intelligence on political leaders.

After news that political research firm Cambridge Analytica was able to gain access to unauthorized user data through the guise of a personality quiz, Facebook found itself in hot water.

Similarly, earlier in the week, a Deutsche Bank research team argued that in light of upcoming European elections and ongoing large - scale economic and political challenges like the migrant crisis, Europe is unlikely to see deeper coordination:

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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.

Pishevar said he would focus on identifying «who is responsible for spreading false rumors about me» and pursuing a defamation lawsuit he filed in November against political research firm Definers Public Affairs, its founder Matt Rhoades and president Joe Pounder.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

«It might be in some ways that access to political office has been a little bit easier than navigating that corporate pipeline,» says Kim Parker, director of social trends research at Pew.

In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

More than 500 contributors who gave more than $ 200 to Republican candidates earlier in this election cycle, are now giving money to Clinton rather than the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to political research group, Crowdpac.

In recently commissioned research by Ryerson's Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership program about the Ethics of Political Leadership, some disturbing trends about the ethical impact of the mayor's reign of error have been highlighted.

The special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment in February of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that spread disinformation ahead of the election, indicates that Russian actors wanted to «spread distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.»

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

In addition to disclosing the political motivations behind Steele's research, the DOJ also outlined the former British spy's long history as an FBI informant and status as a credible source of intelligence who had provided information the DOJ had used in criminal proceedingIn addition to disclosing the political motivations behind Steele's research, the DOJ also outlined the former British spy's long history as an FBI informant and status as a credible source of intelligence who had provided information the DOJ had used in criminal proceedingin criminal proceedings.

In a discussion paper published today, the Shareholder Association for Research & Education looked at the question of political spending by Canadian corporations, from an investor perspective.

The report suggested the Republican candidate was using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users in an attempt to gain an advantage over his political rivals — including Donald Trump.

«If the Russians start backing the Pakistanis in a big way at the political level, then it creates a problem for us,» said Sushant Sareen, a leading expert on India's relations to Pakistan and Afghanistan with New Delhi - based Observer Research Foundation.

And in many ways, FiscalNote does what lobbyists and political research firms have done for decades, though probably for millions of dollars in fees, says Michele Goetz, an analyst specializing in artificial intelligence and government for Forrester.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

December 2009 (1967 kb PDF file): The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about political influence and the financial crisis (by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel); research summaries on «Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Financial Crises» (by Prakash Kannan) and «Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies» (by Turgut Kýþýnbay); the contents of the latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during October — December 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across theResearch, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across theresearch for some of the top companies across the nation.

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.

Governments of all political stripes have been elected and re-elected, here in Canada and abroad, on a similar economic platform: openness to trade, fiscal discipline, tax competitiveness and investment in skills, research and infrastructure.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

In fact, we've known most of the details concerning CA's massive data research, and the use of that research in political campaigns, for several years thanks to a 2015 Guardian article, a viral 2016 article in Das Magazin (later published by Vice), and a March 2017 article by the IntercepIn fact, we've known most of the details concerning CA's massive data research, and the use of that research in political campaigns, for several years thanks to a 2015 Guardian article, a viral 2016 article in Das Magazin (later published by Vice), and a March 2017 article by the Intercepin political campaigns, for several years thanks to a 2015 Guardian article, a viral 2016 article in Das Magazin (later published by Vice), and a March 2017 article by the Intercepin Das Magazin (later published by Vice), and a March 2017 article by the Intercept.

Political Economy Research I am travelling in Europe for three weeks to discuss the global financial crisis with government officials, politicians and labor leaders.

Her independent research documented the impact of political shifts on endangered cultural practices in modern Latin America.

The political research firm with ties to the Donald Trump campaign has been caught in a whirlwind of privacy and data collection allegations in recent months.

«We believe that over the short term, Greece's tourism industry will suffer from political uncertainty, as potential risks of domestic unrest deter visitors,» a report from BMI Research published in February said.

The Chinese missile project «was one of the things that really made people say «Turkey is shifting, wow,»» said Mehmet Soylemez, an Asian studies specialist at the Institute for Social and Political Researches, an independent research group in Ankara.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

Yuezhi Zhao is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

A provocative new report from Sentier Research gives us insight into what might be the key factor in the Trump phenomenon: A secular decline in the financial well - being of white working class males and what we can infer as the resulting anger directed at the political powers that be.

While surveys conducted by both the Centre for Political Research and Studies (CIEP) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) indicate that while the Costa Rican electorate is happy with Solís» performance in office, they have not repaid his party with substantive support for its candidate.

Andrew Jackson is senior policy adviser at the Broadbent Institute and an adjunct research professor in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University.

BMI Research predicted in January that better metals prices, new projects coming online and expansions at existing operations «will make the DRC the fastest growing major mining market in the world this year, despite mounting political and regulatory risks.»

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

In June 2016 BBVA Chief U.S. Economist Nathaniel Karp, citing BBVA Research's Political Uncertainty Index, said companies large and small were adopting a «wait and see» approach ahead of the election.