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David Canter considers whether ‘all-purpose’ police forces a no longer fit for purpose.

The headlines come fast and furious – more than a million Americans dead of overdoses since the year 2000, nearly […]

Rebecca “Becky” Blank, an economist and administrator whose career spanned academe and the policy world, died of pancreatic cancer February 17 near Madison, Wisconsin. She was 67.

A model is only as good as its underlying simplifying assumptions and data, notes Robert Dingwall, and in the case of testing the effectiveness of face masks to combat the spread of COVID those data are, he argues, at best fragile.

While the full story will probably have to await the attention of historians, writes Robert Dingwall, but anyone who criticized masking was labeled as a peddler of disinformation.

The American Sociological Association recently released a statement “urg[ing] public officials, educators, and lawmakers to avoid suppressing knowledge, violating academic and free speech, and prohibiting scholars and teachers from discussing and teaching about the roles of race and racism in society.

A concern for Orientalist thinking should lead us to ask what British and American elites are doing with their representation of this imagined “Asia.”

Given the prevalence of trigger warnings, there is little consensus on the extent to which they are, in fact, an effective strategy for reducing the risk of trauma exposure, vicarious trauma, and re-traumatization.

Harvard University economic historian Claudia Goldin studies the origins, causes and persistence of the gender pay gap in the United States, which she discusses in this Social Science Bites podcast.

Torsten Bell, chief executive officer of the Resolution Foundation, delivered the 2022 Campaign for Social Science Annual SAGE Lecture, on […]

Will you research be cited more often if it was originally published open access? The people at Overton, a platform which tracks citation in policy, decided to investigate.

Henri Bergeron et al. Covid-19: Une Crise Organisationelle Sciences Po: Les Presses, 2020. 9782724626650Jean-Paul Gaudillière et al Pandémopolitiqiue La Découverte, […]