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Muslim Support for Secular Democracy

Book abstract: Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices From Within provides an expansive understanding of secularism in the Muslim World by exploring different trajectories and varieties of secularism, from

As It Grows, Al Jazeera Risks Losing Touch

Al Jazeera’s global headquarters fill a sandy patch of land on the outskirts of Doha.

Review of Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited

The Iraq Coalition of the Willing and (Politically) Able: Party Systems, the Press, and Public Influence on Foreign Policy

Media outlets in multiparty electoral systems tend to report on a wider range of policy issues than media in two-party systems. They thus make more competing policy frames available to citizens.

Social Media and Resilience in the Face of Hurricane Sandy

As temperatures drop across the East Coast, where the clean up efforts from Super Storm Sandy are ongoing, stories of resilience are permeating online: tales of New York City Marathon runners shifting

Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment

Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in the US rivaling that of Presidential campaigns.

To Them That Hath’…News Media and Knowledge Gaps

Scholars continue to debate what citizens know about politics, whether ordinary people lack the capacity to make rational and informed choices in a democracy, and what voters learn from election campa

Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil

We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families.

Foreword

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar un fenómeno de gran trascendencia para la mejora potencial de la participación ciudadana en los asuntos públicos y la implicación social en los proceso

The Best of Times

Because Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger was so affable and self-effacing, his extraordinary toughness—even ruthlessness—came as a shock to those ill-advised enough to put him in a corner.