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Morality Politics and New Research on Transgender Politics and Public Policy
(De Gruyter, 2019)Recent political debate over transgender military service and gendered bathroom use highlights a dramatic increase in salience over transgender issues in the US. In this essay, we examine a potential new front in the culture ... -
Transgender prejudice reduction and opinions on transgender rights: Results from a mediation analysis on experimental data
(SAGE Publications, 2018-03-19)Fears, phobias, and dislikes about minorities should be strong determinants of whether Americans support policies protecting such minorities. Studies suggest that discussions and information about transgender people can ... -
Public Attitudes on Transgender Military Service: The Role of Gender
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-11)Policy regarding the inclusion of transgender soldiers in the U.S. military has shifted back and forth in recent years, with public opinion likely a significant factor shaping the eventual policy outcome. As such, this ... -
A study of the Sanitation Department in Lawrence
(University of Kansas, 1962-05) -
Motivated Innumeracy: Estimating the Size of the Gun Owner Population and Its Consequences for Opposition to Gun Restrictions
(Wiley, 2018-11-20)Past research suggests that people substantially overestimate the size of minority populations. Labeled “innumeracy,” inflated estimates of minority populations can have a negative impact on intergroup relations and influence ... -
Immigrant legislation, across and within the United States
(SAGE Publications, 2017-11-26)State governments are now the principal source of immigrant legislation in the US. Existing research presents contradictory findings concerning the sources of pro- and anti-immigration state legislation. However, research ... -
The direct and moderating effects of mass shooting anxiety on political and policy attitudes
(SAGE Publications, 2018-08-27)In this article, we examine the effects of individual anxiety after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, mass shooting, which killed 49 people and wounded 58 others. Similar to prior research on the influence of anxiety, after the ... -
Amitai Etzioni: Communitarian Centrist and Principled Pluralist
(Elsevier, 2018-03)During his 60 year career at Columbia and George Washington Universities, Amitai Etzioni has made many contributions to interdisciplinary understandings of social movements, become a respected public intellectual addressing ... -
Policy Responsiveness to Protest Group Demands
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Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustice, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)Feminist scholars and activists engage in meaningful, contentious debates about the relationships among sex, gender, power, and society. One of the most recent iterations of these arguments reinscribes the pleasure of sex ... -
Islam and power legitimation: instrumentalisation of religion in Central Asian States
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-03)How can Islam play multiple and contradictory roles as a source of violence and peace, and a marker of identity differences and national unity? This study argues that religion, as a system of beliefs, manifests itself ... -
Not a Woman, but a Soldier: Exploring Identity through Translocational Positionality
(Springer Verlag, 2016-08-09)Recent debate over integrating women into U.S. military combat units presents an opportunity to examine the gender identities and experiences of women in the military. Here, we examine the context-dependent prominence of ... -
John Rawls, Barack Obama, and the Pluralist Political Consensus
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-10-01)To counter partisan polarization, political theorists like John Rawls and political leaders like Barack Obama have sought to locate and express consensual elements of American culture that can appeal to or at least be ... -
A study of municipal airports
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Talking Politics on Facebook: Network Centrality and Political Discussion Practices in Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This study examines the relationship between political discussion on Facebook and social network location. It uses a survey name generator to map friendship ties between students at a university and to calculate their ... -
Criticism in News and Its Effects on Authoritarian Duration in China
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This study explains the varying levels of criticism in news coverage in China and tests the news effects on public opinion. It proposes a revision to the traditional censorship paradigm--fractured censorship system. It ... -
Putting the Public into Public Health: Health Policy Related Opinion and Public Policy
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Understanding how public opinion towards health issues shape policy preferences and confidence in government requires not only understanding why such events engage public sentiments but also why they should matter to ... -
The Politics of Climate Adaptation
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Emerging research highlights increasing subnational activity on climate change. While most researchers explore mitigation of climate change, far less attention has been directed towards climate adaptation. In this dissertation ... -
The Impact of Perceptions of Democratic Decline: Explaining French and German Foreign Policy toward Russia
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)In the last ten years, Russia’s growing assertiveness in international affairs has morphed into aggression as exemplified in Moscow’s military interventions first in Georgia in 2008 and subsequently in Ukraine in 2014. ... -
Boley : a study of a Negro city
(University of Kansas, 1930)
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