House to vote on budget to prevent shutdown
Republicans will face a critical test of their unity when a spending bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown and keep federal agencies funded through September comes up for a vote.
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What does the House-passed budget resolution mean?
The House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution last month that included a framework for trillions of dollars of tax cuts and government spending cuts.
Don’t look to efficiency for big deficit reductions
Trying to reduce federal budget deficits by increasing the efficiency of federal operations is an appealing idea.
Human Rights Organizations and Shaming Tactics: Using Anti-Racist Cues to Hone the Messaging
Human Rights Organizations (HROs) often use a criticism tactic, known as shaming, to pressure foreign governments that commit human rights violations to stop their abuses.
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel protests in the United States.
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy.
Health Equity in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
The next U.S. president will inherit multiple epidemics with inequitably distributed effects. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are likely to take divergent policy approaches to addressing these crises.
Satellite Political Movements: How Grassroots Activists Bolster Trump and Bolsonaro in the United States and Brazil
We develop the concept of the satellite political movement (SPM), a form of movement-party interaction that emerges in support of a particular political leader.
A Practical Guide to Dealing with Attrition in Political Science Experiments
Despite admonitions to address attrition in experiments – missingness on Y – alongside best practices designed to encourage transparency, most political science researchers all but ignore it.
A Drag on the Ticket? Estimating Top-of-the-Ticket Effects on Down-Ballot Races
Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party’s down-ballot candidates to low-quality or extreme top-of-the-ticket candidates, but empirical
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