Browsing by Subject "polarization"
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Strategic Behavior Within American Political Institutions
(2020)The three papers in this dissertation seek to measure more accurately critical concepts in the field of American political institutions so as to inform and enable theory-building. The first paper addresses committee prestige ... -
Dialogue in a Divided Nation: Student Perspectives on the Policies and Culture Surrounding Campus Speech
(2020-11-20)Free speech policy on college campuses faces the unique challenge of balancing the allowance of open expression with the protection of a safe, inclusive community. In an effort to address the growing concern of self-censorship ... -
Experimental Study of Storage Ring Free-Electron Laser with Novel Capabilities
(2016)The Duke Free-electron laser (FEL) system, driven by the Duke electron storage ring, has been at the forefront of developing new light source capabilities over the past two decades. In 1999, the Duke FEL demonstrated the ... -
Full of Hot Air? Three Examinations of Climate Change in the American Political Information Environment
(2016)Climate change is thought to be one of the most pressing environmental problems facing humanity. However, due in part to failures in political communication and how the issue has been historically defined in American politics, ... -
Ideological Segregation: Partisanship, Heterogeneity, and Polarization in the United States
(2012)I develop and justify a measure of polarization based on pairwise differences between and within groups, which improves on previous approaches in its ability to account for multiple dimensions and an arbitrary number of ... -
Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents.
(Journal of personality, 2020-06-02)OBJECTIVE:Intellectual humility (IH) refers to the recognition that personal beliefs might be wrong. We investigate possible interpersonal implications of IH for how people perceive the intellectual capabilities and moral ... -
Long-run relationships, economic shocks and political disagreement - The political economy of populism and polarization
(2021)Why do agents react to economic shocks privileging their identities and distrust of elites over their economic interests? This dissertation argues that this paradox can be explained by the logic of democratic representation. ... -
Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
(2009)Geographic clustering has been linked to contemporary political polarization by jour- nalists and other researchers in recent years, most recently and notably by Bishop and Cushing (2008). In these accounts, clustering is ... -
Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography System Development for in Vivo Ophthalmic Imaging
(2009)Spectral‐domain optical‐coherence tomography (SDOCT) has recently emerged as a powerful new tool for noninvasive human retinal imaging. I have developed a low‐cost, high resolution ... -
The Evolution of Supreme Court Justice Confirmation Processes; The Façade of Apolitical Appointments
(2019-03)The nomination and confirmation processes for filling vacancies on the Supreme Court of the United States are a controversial and misunderstood governmental procedure. Statistically presidents have enjoyed success when appointing ...
