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Recessions Or Partisanship: What Explains Climate Skepticism In The U.S.?, Abhishek S. Sambatur
Recessions Or Partisanship: What Explains Climate Skepticism In The U.S.?, Abhishek S. Sambatur
Undergraduate Economic Review
This paper investigates the variations in public mood pertaining to climate skepticism and attempts to empirically assess whether economic recessions or partisanship help explain aggregate-level trends and movements across a 16-year time horizon. Public survey data from the iPoll and Gallup Organization were used to construct the Climate Change Skeptic Index (CCSI) that served as a proxy to capture public opinion trends in skepticism across the U.S. A two-part vector autoregressive model suggests that while economic recessions might be causally linked to climate skepticism, partisanship plays a more influential role in explaining it over time. The key result is that …
Understanding The Characteristics Of Remittance Recipients In Venezuela: A Country In Economic Crisis, Nicole A. Degla
Understanding The Characteristics Of Remittance Recipients In Venezuela: A Country In Economic Crisis, Nicole A. Degla
Undergraduate Economic Review
This essay analyzes household surveys from the World Bank Global Financial Inclusion Database for the years 2011, 2014, and 2017, as a means to distinguish individual level characteristics of remittance recipients in Venezuela. Remittances are defined as “crossborder, person-to-person payments of relatively low value. The transfers are typically recurrent payments by migrant workers to their relatives in their home countries (World Bank, 2015). Through the use of a linear probability model and probit regressions, I examine the variables age, gender, education level, and income quintile. Results of the analysis find that age has a statistically significant negative effect on the …
Kathleen O'Gorman On The Conditions At Us Immigration Facilities, Ryan Denham
Kathleen O'Gorman On The Conditions At Us Immigration Facilities, Ryan Denham
Interviews for WGLT
IWU Professor of English Kathleen O'Gorman spent the summer of 2019 interviewing children being held at U.S. immigration facilities, as a volunteer on behalf of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. She spoke about this experience and the conditions of these detainment centers with WGLT's Ryan Denham.
Meghan Burke Discussing Her New Book "Colorblind Racism", January 24, 2019, Jon Norton
Meghan Burke Discussing Her New Book "Colorblind Racism", January 24, 2019, Jon Norton
Interviews for WGLT
Jon Norton, WGLT Radio, speaks to Professor Meghan Burke about her latest book Colorblind Racism.
Cover Art, Raya Hussein
Cover Art, Raya Hussein
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
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Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
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Letter From The Department Chair, Greg M. Shaw
Letter From The Department Chair, Greg M. Shaw
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
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Editors' Introduction, Gaoming Zhu, Ben Nielsen, Ann Crumbaugh
Editors' Introduction, Gaoming Zhu, Ben Nielsen, Ann Crumbaugh
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
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Authors' Biographies
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Essays: Color-Blind Or Race-Conscious Policies, Gus Castro, Hannah Lyons, Anna Eager, Jonathan Panton
Essays: Color-Blind Or Race-Conscious Policies, Gus Castro, Hannah Lyons, Anna Eager, Jonathan Panton
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
The debate between advocates color blind and race conscious policies has been perennial in the United States since Reconstruction and has recently been resuscitated in the popular press with the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness (2010). Alexander’s book provided support for the race conscious side and students read Nathan Glazer’s Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy (1975) for a defense of the color blind side. The debate was framed in an even-handed manner by a selection from Desmond King and Rogers M. Smith’s Still a House Divided: Race …
The Sizzle Or The Steak? How Individuals Process Political Cues, Ben Nielsen
The Sizzle Or The Steak? How Individuals Process Political Cues, Ben Nielsen
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
The majority of the American electorate is uninformed with regards to politics, and to compensate for their lack of knowledge, they take political cues from perceived experts. This study examines the impact of political cues from various sources, and considers how individuals analyze source credibility and framing. The study was conducted on Illinois Wesleyan University’s campus, via survey collection. Post data analysis, the surveys proved cues given by perceived experts were more compelling than non-perceived experts, and emotional cues were more compelling than rational cues. These findings confirm individuals use peripheral route processing more frequently than central route processing , …
Social Media Engagement In The 2018 Democratic Primaries, Laura Bullock
Social Media Engagement In The 2018 Democratic Primaries, Laura Bullock
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
Social media’s role in American politics has exploded in importance over the past decade. The 2018 primary season saw a massive rise in the amount of progressive, female, and younger candidates across the United States, particularly within the Democratic Party. This paper examines the role of social media outreach within the context of three case studies, all of which featured an insurgent, female, progressive candidate defeating their older, establishment, male opponents within their respective Democratic primaries. All three insurgent candidates maintained a higher rate of both social media output, personalization, and interactivity with the user base, which creates more engagement …
The Role Of Citizenship Status And Its Impact On Latino’ Civic Engagement In The United States, Veronica Torres Luna
The Role Of Citizenship Status And Its Impact On Latino’ Civic Engagement In The United States, Veronica Torres Luna
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
This paper discusses the way in which U.S. citizenship status and legal permanent resident status impacts the likelihood of involvement in civic engagement activities among Latinos in the United States. Past research has looked into various variables such as group consciousness, Spanish-media language, and importance of issues; however, specific research on citizenship status is limited. This paper analyzes data from the Pew Research Center and data obtained from individual interviews in the Midwest. The results show that citizens are more likely than residents to be involved in the community and politics. These findings have important implications in how policies are …
Polarized China: The Effect Of Media Censorship On People's Ideology, Gaoming Zhu
Polarized China: The Effect Of Media Censorship On People's Ideology, Gaoming Zhu
Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
Ideological polarization is not a unique product of western politics. A national survey (2007-2014)6 revealed that the overarching division in Chinese society is split between nationalism and cultural liberalism. Why does polarization happen in society where state ideology dominates the political apparatuses? This paper approaches this puzzle by examining the relationship between individuals’ media diet facilitated by media censorship policies and their ideology in China. The findings suggest that polarization as an outcome is caused by nationalists adhering to heavily state-controlled media, while liberals seek less censored resources. The findings also suggest that polarization as a process is due …