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The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 29, 2013

The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.

Also posted in Featured, Impact, News, Public Policy | Tagged American Academy of Political and Social Science, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Douglas S.Massey, employment, inequality, labor, Moynihan, political science, Poverty, race, social science, sociology, William Julius Wilson | 1 Comment

Groped at Luton Airport: Accountability and the Security State

By Robert Dingwall | Published: May 26, 2013

I was still wearing my belt and triggered the detection gate. What followed was the most intrusive search that I have experienced at any UK or US airport.

Also posted in Featured, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged accountability, Airport security, Freedom of Information, Luton, market failure, Privatisation, privatization, regulation, TSA | Leave a comment

Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 16, 2013

SAGE’s Global Publishing Director, Ziyad Marar talks with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about the one year anniversary of Social Science Bites.

Also posted in Featured, Interdisciplinarity, Public Engagement | Tagged Daniel Kahneman, David Edmonds, Interview, Nigel Warburton, podcast, social science, Social Science Bites, Steven Pinker, Ziyad Marar | Leave a comment

Congressional Briefing on social surveys and statistics (American Academy of Political and Social Science)

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 7, 2013

Last month The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) put together a Congressional Briefing on the impact of falling response rates to social surveys and what can be done about it.

Also posted in Academic Funding, Impact, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged business, policy, statistics, Surveys | 1 Comment

The Nonresponse Challenge to Surveys and Statistics

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 7, 2013

Survey researchers are increasingly unable to get people to respond to surveys. This is a real worry because nonresponse can lead to biased research and because nonresponse poses a significant threat to the federal statistical system in its entirety.

Also posted in Academic Funding, Interdisciplinarity, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research Ethics, Research Methods | Tagged American Community Survey, American National Election Study, data, Douglas S.Massey, National Health Interview Survey, National Survey of Family Growth, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, policy, Quantitative Methods, Roget Tourangeau, social science, statistics, Survey Methods, survey research, Survey Response, Surveys, U.S. Census | 1 Comment

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

Also posted in Featured, Impact, News, Public Policy | Tagged BCS/CSEW, British Crime Survey, crime, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Danny Dorling, financial crisis, inequality, Interpersonal violence, Police, Poverty, Property, recession | Leave a comment

Accountability, Compliance and Bureaucratisation in Higher Education

By Ferdinand von Prondzynski | Published: April 26, 2013

Around the educational mission we are now spinning a web of ‘accountability’ that has little to do with explaining or justifying our activities, and much to do with obscuring our responsibility through the creation of elaborate processes.

Also posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact, News | Tagged Academic Job, Academic job seeking, accountability, bureaucratization, Dublin City University, ociety of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, risk management, university | 2 Comments

Signs of the Times

By Daniel Nehring | Published: April 24, 2013

Tom Wolfe, Miami, and the shallowness of our image-driven modern life.

Also posted in Featured | Tagged Book Review, celebrity culture, Image-obsessed, Literature, Reading, Superficiality, Tome Wolfe | Leave a comment

The Papers That Could Change Politics in the Coming Years

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: April 23, 2013

A review of new material presented at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual conference in Chicago.

Also posted in Impact, News | Tagged Barbara Norrander, Casey B. K. Dominguez, Conference, Danielle Thomsen, Jay Wendland, Kerri Stephens, MPSA, political science, Seth Masket | 1 Comment

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