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American Trust: Confidence in the Ability of the United States Government to Successfully Respond to Acts of Cyberterrorism
(2018-04)Determining the impact of cyberterrorism – a relatively recent construct – on individuals’ trust in the United States government is an area of study lacking longitudinal research. Existing studies provide only topical ... -
Determinants of Forced Migration: The Varying Effects of Violence and Economic Conditions on Syrian Refugee Flight
(2016-12)The majority of existing research on the impact of civil war on forced migration flows uses observations at the annual-global level, limiting the applicability of results to explaining aggregate trends. This article studies ... -
Determinants of Military Expenditure for Deterrence: Interaction with Nuclear Weapons, Democracies, and Alliances
(2016-12)During his campaign trail, the President-elect announced increasing military expenditure to enable deterrence to maintain the security of the United States. However, limited quantitative research exists to determine if ... -
Do Media Companies Drive Bias? Using Sentiment Analysis to Measure Media Bias in Newspaper Tweets
(2018-04)As natural language processing tools are advancing in their use to study corpuses, it is important to harness these tools to study media content for potential media bias. Existing studies have attempted to measure political ... -
Does Immigration Cause Crime? Evidence from the United States
(2018-08)Donald Trump announced that immigration should be responsible for higher crime incidents in the United States, and he in turn aimed to strengthen his anti-immigrant policies. Recently, his entire anti-immigrant agenda has ... -
Does Teacher Multicultural Training Matter? Evidence from the U.S. Scores on Pisa 2015
(2018-10)The racial and ethnic achievement gap in the USA ranges from about 3 to 5 years of schooling. Existing research about diversity in education has focused on studying the effect of matching students with teachers of the same ... -
The Economic Integration of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. States
(2018-05)This paper measures the economic integration of immigrant populations in the United States by comparing incomes of native-born and foreign-born individuals across states in years 2005-2016. Whereas previous research on ... -
Evaluating Primary Care Same Day Access as a Method to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Related to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
(2018-04)Current evidence in support of measures to reduce hospital admissions associated with Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) is extensive and represents decades of global research. My study improves this by examining ... -
Fraccidents: The Ostensible Link Between Oil and Gas Development and Car Accidents in Post-Shale Boom Texas Counties
(2017-12)New developments in the exploration of unconventional Oil and Gas (O&G) resources have become an energy industry trend. Nevertheless, there are underlying environmental and socio-economic impacts attributed to “fracking”, ... -
How Differences in State Policy and Local Insurance Markets Impact the Effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act's Expansion of Health Insurance Access
(2018-08)The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act relies upon state governments for the implementation of some aspects of its provisions that are designed to expand access to health insurance. Differences in how parts of the ... -
Identifying Intentionally Duplicative Public Comments Submitted to Proposed Federal Rules
(2017-12)Since the public commenting process for proposed federal regulations became primarily web-based, the number of rules receiving extremely high comment volumes has increased substantially; raising concerns about whether ... -
The Implications of Shortening Early Voting Periods: A Case Study from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
(2016-05-05)Early voting is a widely available convenience voting option, yet research into exactly who casts a ballot early has produced mixed results. Researchers have simultaneously shown that early voters are wealthier and whiter ... -
An Improved Index for Measuring Precinct-Level Political Ideology in California
(2017-12)Despite California’s reputation as a solidly liberal state, there exist deep regional and neighborhood-level divisions in political ideology among voters. Factor analysis has been used in previous research to formulate ... -
Indeterminate Effects of Crisis Intervention Teams on Law Enforcement Officer Shootings of People with Mental Illnesses
(2018-05)After the 1987 police shooting of a mentally ill Memphis man, the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model was developed to train police officers to better respond to similar cases. However, decades later, little research ... -
Job Training Programs for Dislocated Workers: The Positive Effects of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
(2016-12)There has been a substantial amount of research the past several decades measuring the effectiveness of federally subsidized Department of Labor (DOL) programs to assist the unemployed. However, there is little to no ... -
Less Traditional, Less Success: The Negative Effect of Nontraditional Students on Community College Graduation Rates
(2017-12)Community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates and 60% of community college students are independent for financial aid purposes. Independent students, with a number of nontraditional traits, are increasing as high ... -
Penalties and Public Education Campaigns: An Analysis of U.S. States' Policy Efforts to Prevent Cell Phone Related Distracted Driving Fatalities
(2018-05)Existing literature on U.S. states’ policy efforts to prevent cell phone related distracted riving fatalities currently lacks a comprehensive quantitative analysis on the effects of penalty severity and public education ... -
The Republic of Georgia: Public Opinion about NATO and the Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
(2016-02-02)This paper explores how various socioeconomic measures affect Georgian residents' opinions on joining NATO. These measures include education level, knowledge of the English language, and job satisfaction. Through statistical ... -
Responsiveness to Citizen Input: Topic Model Analysis of Public Comments to the San Francisco Police Commission
(2017-12)Police commissions are uniquely positioned to funnel critical issues raised by citizens to police departments, thereby increasing accountability and potentially improving police/community relations. However, no empirical ... -
Since Stonewall: How the Factors that Influence Social Support for Homosexuality have Changed Since 1970
(2018-08)From the AIDS crisis to the legalization of gay marriage, the past 40-50 years have been a period of monumental change for the social approval of homosexuality in the United States. Current research has assessed the evolution ...