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Thorson paper on fight against fake news published in Science

David Lazer, Matthew Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam Berinsky, Kelly Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David Rothschild, Michael Schudson, Steven Sloman, Cass Sunstein, Emily Thorson, Duncan Watts & Jonathan Zittrain
Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, and co-authors call for a coordinated investigation into the underlying social, psychological and technological forces behind fake news to counteract the phenomenon's negative influence on society.
March 9, 2018

See related: Civil Rights

Monnat study on disparities in Hispanic health insurance coverage rates published in Rural Sociology

Shannon M. Monnat
August 16, 2016

See related: Civil Rights, Insurance

Veil of Darkness

William Horrace uses an economist’s analytical approach to study whether traffic-stop patterns reveal racial bias by police officers.
June 1, 2016

See related: Civil Rights, Race & Ethnicity

Schewe article on amenity migration published in Society & Natural Resources

Kristi S. Lekies, David Matarrita-Cascante, Rebecca Schewe & Richelle Winkler
August 24, 2015

See related: Civil Rights, Migration

Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt, and India

Yüksel Sezgin
December 31, 2013

See related: Human Rights, Religion

Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

Yüksel Sezgin
December 31, 2011

See related: Human Rights

The Truths Behind the Myth of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman is an American heroine, but her life story is shrouded in myth and exaggeration. Thanks to the work of Maxwell faculty members and students, the genuine contributions of Tubman’s life are coming to light.
June 23, 2008

See related: Human Rights, New York State, Race & Ethnicity, State & Local, Student Experience

The Courts and Public Opinion

A new Syracuse University institute, co-sponsored by Maxwell, will study how media, politics, and the judiciary sometimes collide and sometimes collude.

September 1, 2006

See related: Government, Law

Ondrich, Yinger paper on real estate agents withholding houses from Black customers published in RES

Jan Ondrich, Stephen Ross & John Yinger
October 31, 2003

See related: Civil Rights, Race & Ethnicity

War and Slavery in Sudan

Jok Madut Jok
December 31, 2001

See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Human Rights

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