This article presents a quantitative analysis of the geographic distribution of spending through the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). Using newly assembled state- and county-level data, the results show that the Johnson administration directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer areas and those with a greater sh...

Policymakers frequently use arational appeals – such as those relying on emotion, cognitive biases, and subliminal messaging – to persuade citizens to adopt behaviors that support public goals. However, these communication tactics have been widely criticized for relying on arational triggers rather than reasoned argument. This Article develops a fuller account of the non-consequentialist object...

Uncertainty creates anxiety so attempts have been made to reduce it using mathematical techniques. In the electronics industry the very large quantities of devices processed have provided reliable statistics and the opportunity to employ statistical methods. However, in fields such as decision-making and risk assessment there are strong criticisms of the probability calculus that have been trig...

Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality by Joel F. Handler; Yeheskel Hasenfeld; The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the TwentyFirst Century by Keith M. Kilty; Elizabeth A. Segal; When Welfare Disappears: The Case for Economic Human Rights by Kenneth J. Neubeck; Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization by Sanford F. Schram Revi...

How have local governments in China been able to break through central policy restrictions in a unitary and authoritarian political system? Why is China’s official discourse in the reform era often so conservative and unfavorable to reform? The author argues the two issues are components of a signaling game between China’s central government and local officials, in which local officials know th...

The influence of Eric Griffiths looms large in this book. In his 1989 study The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry, Griffiths examines the negotiation between spoken and written language that is central to the reading of Victorian poetry. In The Art of Eloquence, Matthew Bevis uses a similarly comparative approach to the languages of speech and writing as the basis for his analysis of the relati...

This article is an exploratory analysis of the political style Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), which, despite being a mainstream center-left party, has shifted from latent to crystalized populist rhetoric. Using qualitative content party speeches and press statements 2015–2019, shows how became more as domestic justice system began pressure leading PSD politicians. The data reveal inter...