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The Unexpected Consensus Among Voting Methods
Historically, the theoretical social choice literature on voting procedures in economics and political science routinely highlights worst case scenarios, emphasizing the inexistence of a universally ‘best’ voting method. Indeed, the Impossibility Theorem of Nobel Laureate
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Scientists Provide a Civics Lesson for Politicians
In the spring of 1975, a United States Senator from Wisconsin began a public media campaign against what he judged to be wasteful government spending. His monthly press release, entitled the “Golden Fleece Award,” was
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Observations
Facing the Way We Elect Our Leaders Apparently CNN, the Gallup Poll, and the New York Times are working way too hard during election season. A study published by Princeton University researchers in the June
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APS Lifetime Member Profile: Herbert C. Kelman
Herbert Kelman, who calls himself a “political psychologist,” came to the United States from Vienna during World War II. As professor of social ethics, emeritus, and chair of the Middle East Seminar at Harvard University
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Fatal Attraction
In the Wake of 9/11 The Psychology of Terror By Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon, and Jeff Greenberg “Republican leaders said yesterday that they would repeatedly remind the nation of the Sept. 11 attacks as their
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Damn the Political Dynamite, Full Speed Ahead on Bilingual Research
The National Research Council (NRC) has unveiled a new set of research priorities for educating children with limited English proficiency. A pre-publication copy of the NRC’s 484-page report was released amid hopes that the new