Interesting study by Schuster et al. suggesting that cycling in urban areas has a positive effect on the common good (i.e. political participation, social participation in organizations, neighbourhood solidarity, and neighbourly helpfulness)
In the latest episode of the Conflict Tipping Podcast, we explore the often overlooked but vital topic of mental health amidst conflict. Join us as Dr. Nawaraj Upadhaya discusses the importance of primary mental health care, and how he is trying to make it more accessible in crisis areas.
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Any #EU#law historians around? Since when can member states not party to a direct action proceeding before the #CJEU submit observations? The oldest example I could find by a crude text search dates from 1986 [1]. That's 32 years after the first direct action was lodged that included a member state [2]. Were member states simply not allowed to submit observations before?
Throwback Thursday election version! Twin Cities CBS TV affiliate, @wcco anchors (L to R) Skip Loescher, Dave Moore, Pat Miles, reporting on the returns at the Control Data Corporation news desk on election night November 2, 1982.
It's official: Tremendously looking forward to being part of the ARM consortium which has received Horizon funding to comparatively study authoritarian states' suppression of information as a part of their foreign policy and towards diasporas in Europe. I'll lead the Work Package on Russia.
Wie alt ist das deutsche Bundesrecht? Ein Maßstab dafür kann das Ausfertigungsjahr sein.
Hier sehen wir die Anzahl aller 6736 Bundesgesetze und -verordnungen auf www.gesetze-im-internet.de am Stichtag (3. Oktober 2023), gruppiert nach Ausfertigungsjahr, unabhängig davon ob sie im Internet mit oder ohne Text veröffentlicht wurden (ca. 1000 Rechtsakte sind ohne Text). Berücksichtigt sind nur Stammgesetze, keine Änderungsgesetze.
Grateful for Oct. trips to Capitol Hill to offer historical perspective on AI and to frame contemporary social risks and opportunities--first at the @AHAHistorians AHA Congressional Briefing on AI w/ Janet Abbate @nescioquid & Matt Connelly (to air on CSPAN) then at the AI Policy Symposium and Inauguration of Academic Alliance for AI Policy (for which I & the Babbage Institute will be ongoing participants)
Today's image of the day shows Joe Sullivan (seated) and Tom Burke (standing) using PLATO terminals to record Hennepin County election returns at the Minneapolis Business & Technical Center, as local CBS TV affiliate WCCO films the action, 1982.
Should we adjust the ideal of #Democracy to institutional reality or should we try to bring reality closer to the ideal?
In a new paper 🎉 , @VerglPolwi and I argue that deliberative responsiveness constitutes a promise representative democracy can fulfill.
We show how contemporary democracies struggle to meet this standard and discuss three institutional innovations to improve deliberative responsiveness.
🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in New Media & Society, @Dan_S_Lane (@CommUcsb) and I explore the utility of re-framing the goal of confronting racist speech online from attitude change to norm setting. A 🧵 (1/7) @politicalscience@communicationscholars@socialpsych
We conclude by noting that attitude change as a goal does little to change the social power dynamics in which racism thrives. It's based on the hope that racist speakers will refrain from such behavior out of the goodness of their heart. Norm-setting addresses power dynamics. 6/7 @politicalscience@communicationscholars@socialpsych
🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in New Media & Society, @Dan_S_Lane (@CommUcsb) and I explore the utility of re-framing the goal of confronting racist speech online from attitude change to norm setting. A 🧵 (1/7) @politicalscience@communicationscholars@socialpsych
Given the descriptive norms of social media and how entrenched racist attitudes might be, confronting racist speech to change such attitudes might seem impossible. But setting social norms against racist speech may seem like a more achievable task. 2/7 @politicalscience@communicationscholars@socialpsych
We explore this in an online survey experiment conducted during the 2020 U.S. presidential election and find that white social media users reported greater willingness to confront online racist speech for the purpose of norm setting than for the purpose of attitude change. 3/7 @politicalscience@communicationscholars@socialpsych