A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Nasser Fakouhi is professor of Anthropology at the University of Tehran. In a 2016 interview with Social Science Space, he reflected on the origins and development of social science in Iran and how political repression has impacted academic freedom.
The author’s research shows that many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do.
The Pew Research Center writes that “as the relationship between population density and coronavirus death rates has changed over the course of the pandemic, so too has the relationship between counties’ voting patterns and their death rates from COVID-19.”
Just over a month ago in November, Michelle Wu was sworn in as the first woman and person of color elected as […]
As Ian McBride has commented in The Guardian, one of the strange features of Britain’s EU referendum is the resignation […]
While the choice of who will be Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidates currently consumes the American chattering class, once the choice is made the chosen are more likely than not to slide into obscurity.
With most works of art looking at the past, the real focus is the present. The new movie ‘Suffragette,’ writes Robert Dingwall, invites us to think about the consequences of political systems that are supposedly democratic but systematically exclude many voices.
From the margins of the political landscape to its center, Ruth Wodak examines the trajectories of populist right-wing parties in Europe in order to understand and explain how they are transforming from fringe voices to persuasive political actors who set the agenda and frame media debates.
Jacob N. Shapiro : The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. 335 pp. $29.95/£19.95, […]
Cold weather getting you down? Why not curl up by the fire with a good book? Betsy Leondar-Wright : Missing […]
Have some time to read before the new semester starts? Akos Rona-Tas, Alya Guseva : Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for […]
Looking for a good read now that the semester is winding down? Steven G. Mandis: What Happened to Goldman Sachs: […]
