Browsing by Subject "Public Opinion"
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Are State legislatures responding to public opinion when allocating funds for tobacco control programs?
(Health Promot Pract, 2004-07)This study explored the factors associated with state-level allocations to tobacco-control programs. The primary research question was whether public sentiment regarding tobacco control was a significant factor in the states' ... -
Do Citizens in Authoritarian Countries Censor Themselves?
(2014)Citizens' opinions in authoritarian countries are overlooked in the current research on authoritarian regimes. It is also hard to get the true opinions from the citizens. Because they might fear the consequences of disclosure ... -
Does Everyone Have a Price? The Demand Side of Clientelism and Vote-Buying in an Emerging Democracy
(2012)Public opinion tools are used to look at voter motivations to engage in clientelistic practices and their variation across structures of competition. -
PARTAKE survey of public knowledge and perceptions of clinical research in India.
(PLoS One, 2013)BACKGROUND: A public that is an informed partner in clinical research is important for ethical, methodological, and operational reasons. There are indications that the public is unaware or misinformed, and not sufficiently ... -
Preferring Refugees: How German Attitudes Changed During the European Refugee Crisis and Along Historical State Divides
(2017-05-15)The 2015 refugee crisis brought 1.3 million migrants to Europe; of those, one million sought asylum in Germany, bringing profound social and political repercussions. Germany is now challenged with aiding and integrating ... -
Seeking the Beijing Consensus in Asia: An Empirical Test of Soft Power
(2011-04-15)The empirical study of soft power presents a challenge for social scientists. Conventional wisdom asserts that China’s soft power is growing alongside its hard power, but few scholars have been able to demonstrate this phenomenon ... -
Systematic review and metasummary of attitudes toward research in emergency medical conditions.
(J Med Ethics, 2014-06)Emergency departments are challenging research settings, where truly informed consent can be difficult to obtain. A deeper understanding of emergency medical patients' opinions about research is needed. We conducted a systematic ... -
The Politics of Gender Socialization
(2016)This manuscript is comprised of three papers that examine the far-reaching and often invisible political outcomes of gender role socialization in the United States. These papers focus primarily on two areas: political confidence ...
