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Making Sense of Crime Trends

By Richard Garside | Published: March 15, 2013

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of 'crime'. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research | Also tagged British Crime Survey, Crime, Crime Rates, Crime Survey for England, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Criminology, Demography, Homicide, Richard Garside, Robbery, Social Science, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Trends | 1 Response

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 1 of 3)

By The Monkey Cage | Published: August 16, 2012

If policy influence becomes so unequal that the wishes of most citizens are ignored most of the time, a country’s claim to be a democracy is cast in doubt. And that is exactly what I found in my analyses of the link between public preferences and government policy in the U.S.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Affluence and Influence, Democracy, Economic Inequality, Economics, Impact, Inequality, Martin Gilens, middle class, Policy, Political Science, The Monkey Cage | Leave a comment

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- Jonathan Portes on the Economics of Immigration July 1, 2019
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- Sam Friedman on Class June 5, 2019
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- Monika Krause on Humanitarian Aid May 1, 2019
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