We re-examine whether the broad support for repeal of the estate tax is a result of citizen ignorance. We find that increasing information about the estate tax or politics in general has very different effects on Republicans and Democrats. While high and lowinformation Republicans support estate tax repeal, Democratic support is higher among those who know less. However, most highly-informed pe...

Article history: Received 1 December 2013 Received in revised form 14 March 2014 Accepted 15 March 2014 Available online 4 May 2014 Research has consistently shown that intelligence is positively correlated with socially liberal beliefs and negatively correlated with religious beliefs. This should lead one to expect that Republicans are less intelligent than Democrats. However, I find that indi...

In May of 2022, the US Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization threatened to and did overturn Roe Wade, historic 1973 that created prenatal healthcare guidelines, including specifications for regulation abortion. This work aims investigate tweets on Wade during a period interest through posts Twitter provide an understanding general public opinion. was done primarily by ...

Isaiah D. Clawson was a physician and politician from Salem County in the antebellum era. He first affiliated with Whig Party. When that party disintegrated mid-1850s, sought support of American (Know-Nothing) Party before affiliating more enduring Republican Clawson's political maneuvers when he ran for, elected to, U.S. House Representatives 1854 1856 revealed options open to Whigs as their f...

WHAT ORIGINALLY HAPPENED TO CREATE A NEED FOR THIS ORGANISATION? General practitioner Judy Bury started the organisation in 1976 after the White Bill threatened the 1967 Abortion Act. Judy felt that there was a need for an organisation of doctors who were in favour of a woman’s choice on abortion in order to counteract the negative press that was current at the time, and to stand against other ...

Five studies across cultures involving 661 American Democrats and Republicans, 995 Israelis, and 1,266 Palestinians provide previously unidentified evidence of a fundamental bias, what we term the "motive attribution asymmetry," driving seemingly intractable human conflict. These studies show that in political and ethnoreligious intergroup conflict, adversaries tend to attribute their own group...

We are developing a classifier that can automatically identify a web video’s ideological perspective on a political or social issue (e.g., pro-life or pro-choice on the abortion issue). The problem has received little attention, possibly due to inherent difficulties in content-based approaches. We propose to develop such a classifier based on the pattern of tags emerging from folksonomies. The ...

We are developing a classifier that can automatically identify a web video’s ideological perspective on a political or social issue (e.g., pro-life or pro-choice on the abortion issue). The problem has received little attention, possibly due to inherent difficulties in content-based approaches. We propose to develop such a classifier based on the pattern of tags emerging from folksonomies. The ...

In a two-party legislature, districts represented by the majority may receive greater funds if majority-party legislators have greater proposal power or disproportionately form coalitions with each other. Funding types received by districts may depend on their legislators’ party identity when party preferences differ. Estimates from the United States, using fixedeffect and regression-discontinu...