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Professors Aren't Changing Their Students' Politics [Pure Pedantry]Professors are not effective at indoctrinating their students with their own politics -- or so says a study in the journal PS as reported in the NYTimes: A study of nearly 7,000 students at 38 institutions published in the current PS: Political Science and Politics, the journal of the American... |
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The Colbert BumpFrom OpenSecrets.org: "Democrats who appear on 'The Colbert Report' enjoy a significant increase in the number and total amount of donations they receive over the next 3040 days when compared to similar candidates who do not appear on the show," according to a summary of [political s... |
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Stephen Colbert Mathematically Proved To Influence American PoliticsDemocratic politicians appearing on the comedy teevee show The Colbert Report got an average 40 percent bump in contributions in the month following their visit, while Republican politicians got an average of nothing. This just goes to prove that Republicans do not watch The Colbert Report, or if... |
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Why Do People Vote? Genetic Variation in Political Participation…and other full-text reports on DocuTickerPosted 7 July 2008 on DocuTicker: + Why Do People Vote? Genetic Variation in Political Participation (American Political Science Review) + OMB Releases Annual Federal Regulations Benefits-Cost Report (Office of Management and Budget) + Possible Federal Revenue from Oil Development of ANWR and Nea... |
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Fitzgerald: Another case for the annals of idiocy"Political science professor Michael Ross argues in a new paper that oil booms put more men than women into the workforce and decrease women's political representation. "As a result, oil-producing states are left with atypically strong patriarchal norms, laws, and political institu... |
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Will ‘Telling On Your Neighbors’ Get Them to Vote?The American Political Science Review’s Feb. 2008 issue has a new study by Alan Gerber, Donald Green, and Christopher Larimer testing the accuracy of voter turnout theories based on “rational self-interested behavior.” The researchers sought to “distinguish between two asp... |
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