Activists, Non-activists, and Allies: Civic Engagement and Student Types at MSIs

Facebook: The enabler of online civic engagement for activists

Activists and “difficult people”

Uneasy allies: pro-choice physicians, feminist health activists and the struggle for abortion rights.

Abortion represents a particularly interesting subject for a social movements analysis of healthcare issues because of the involvement of both feminist pro-choice activists and a segment of the medical profession. Although both groups have long shared the same general goal of legal abortion, the alliance has over time been an uneasy one, and in many ways a contradictory one. This paper traces p...

Gamblers as Personal Finance Activists

Gambling behavior can serve as an informative indicator of important household heterogeneity that is difficult to observe directly in data. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first comprehensive study of the consumption and personal finance of gamblers using a nationwide representative household survey. We find that consumers are more likely to gamble when income is higher than its n...

Activists target animal dealers.

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