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The term “White Christian nationalism” is on the rise. Here’s what journalists should know about using it
“A keyword-focused ‘close enough, good enough’ approach to white Christian nationalism risks misdiagnosing problems, muddling solutions, and alienating potentially reachable readers.” View this article at
January 6, Trump and the rise of America’s dangerous ‘shadow gospel’
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SPID: A New Database for Inferring Public Policy Innovativeness and Diffusion Networks
Despite its rich tradition, there are key limitations to researchers’ ability to make generalizable inferences about state policy innovation and diffusion. This paper introduces new
The Effects of Polarization on Ideological Certainty: An Application to Executive Order Issuance
Many standard models of political institutions frame outcomes as a function of the preferences of key decision makers. However, these models, and the empirical analyses
Well-Being and the Democratic State: How the Public Sector Promotes Human Happiness
While a growing literature within the study of subjective well-being demonstrates the impact of socio-political factors on subjective well-being, scholars have conspicuously failed to consider