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The first Muslim president? Causes and consequences of the belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim
31 May 2010
by David Smith
This draft paper uses data from the 2008 ANES panel study to explore the surprisingly widespread belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim. David Smith examines two main causal mechanisms: anti-Obama predispositions caused by Republican Party ID and implicit racial bias, which would have created a good pre-existing “fit” for belief in the Muslim rumour, and lack of political knowledge, which would have increased the Muslim rumour’s plausibility. Read Paper
Investing in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children, 1972 to 2007
31 March 2010
by Dr Sabino Kornrich and Professor Frank Furstenberg
Parental spending on children is often presumed to be both one of the main ways parents invest in children and one of the main reasons children from wealthier households are more advantaged than children from poorer households. Given increasing income inequality, pressures to invest in children have likely grown over time. To track the extent of parental spending on children over time, we make use of the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how spending on children has changed over the period from the early 1970s to the late 2000s. We find that spending increased substantially over the period in large part because parents’ spending on education increased substantially. Increases in expenditures have been particularly sharp among those near the top of the income distribution and the college-educated, while the share of income spent has increased sharply among those near the bottom of the income distribution as they attempt to maintain spending in the face of declining incomes. Read Paper
Ignorance and inclusion, Mr Jefferson, might be good for democracy
7 November 2009
by Associate Professor Lyn Carson
The Anti-American Tradition: A literature review
23 October 2009
by Associate Professor Brendon O'Connor
Jesus Q. Politician: Explaining the politicization of religion in the United States, Australia, and Canada
20 October 2009
The religious sociologist Peter Berger once said that if India is the most religious country and Sweden the least, then the United States is a nation of Indians ruled by Swedes. This metaphor is inaccurate, at least with regard to Australia, Canada, and the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. The United States actually comes closer to being a nation of Indians ruled by Indians, while Australia a nation of Swedes ruled by Indians, and Canada a nation of “Swindians” ruled by Swedes. Read Paper
American foreign policy traditions: A literature review
9 October 2009
by Associate Professor Brendon O'Connor
Vive la difference? Egalitarianism, housework, and sexual frequency in marriage
1 October 2009
by Dr Sabino Kornrich, Julie Brines and Katrina Leupp
Changes in the nature of contemporary marriage have spurred a debate about the consequences of shifts to more egalitarian relationships, and media interest in the debate recently crystallized around a set of claims that men who participated in housework ‘got’ more sex. However, there is relatively little systematic or representative research that supports the claim that women, in essence, exchange sex for men’s participation in housework. Read Paper
The reasons for compliance with the law
22 September 2009
by Professor Margaret Levi, Tom Tyler and Audrey Sachs
Searching for small area (SLA) drivers of growth in the Sydney Greater Metropolitan Region, Australia
17 September 2009
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The first black president may be the exception that proves the rule of a racially divided United States, says Professor Kevin Gaines.
Dr Mark Geiger discusses the previously unknown financial conspiracy which funded guerrillas during the Civil War.
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