4/16
Kristen de Groot
News Officer
krisde@upenn.edu
Economist Harold L. Cole of the School of Arts & Sciences offers an overview of what could happen should the U.S. default on debt payments because no spending deal is reached.
Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities.
The Sudanese scholar and senior lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies offers some background that led to the recent violence and potential paths to peace.
The newly elected members, distinguished scholars recognized for their innovative contributions to original research, include faculty from the School of Arts & Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine, Annenberg School for Communication, and Wharton School.
Nabil Fahmy, former foreign minister of Egypt and Egyptian ambassador to the United States, spoke on campus about the current state of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament in that region.
In a new book, Penn political scientist Daniel J. Hopkins offers a detailed study of Americans’ opinions about the Affordable Care Act and examines to what extent political elites can reshape public opinion through their words or policies.
Student fellows in the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies put their data-analysis skills and political know-how to use in creating user-friendly visualizations and enhancing traditional reporting practices.
A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that the stronger your ancestral family ties, the more likely you are to hold right-wing cultural policy preferences.
The international relations major explores how narratives are shaped and how we understand the world through writing.
Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences looks back at the deal that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
Kristen de Groot
News Officer
krisde@upenn.edu
Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences points to Chile as an international example of a large sex abuse scandal turning into effective activism.
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Marc Trussler of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Biden surrogates can’t outright ignore warning signs from polling data.
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Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the Republican lean to the right during the last few decades has distorted labels like moderate and conservative.
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A study from Penn found that votes in ranked-choice races are nearly 10 times more likely to be rejected due to an improper mark than votes in non-ranked choice races.
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Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law says that general polls feature members of the public who are expressing more of a feeling about the state of affairs, such as the economy, in comparison with voters who intend to go to the ballot box.
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Research at Penn indicates that the core difference between conservatives and liberals is whether the world is intrinsically hierarchical, with conservatives believing more strongly that the world should demonstrate a stratified orderliness.
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