https://phys.org/science-news/political-science en-us The latest news on political science Since 2011, California has significantly reformed its criminal justice system, reducing the size of its prison population, with no effect on violent crime and only marginal impacts on property crime statewide. The COVID-19 pandemic furthered decarceration as the state reduced state prison and jail populations to slow the spread of the virus. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-covid-related-decarceration-affect-crime-california.html Political science Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:16:38 EDT news617030195 When Wellington carpenter Samuel Parnell began the struggle for an eight-hour working day back in 1840, he could have never foreseen how modern work culture would evolve. But he would no doubt empathize with the challenges faced by today's workers. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nz-always-on-culture-hour-workdayshould.html Economics & Business Political science Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:57:03 EDT news617021821 Parents face eye-watering costs for childcare in the UK. A part-time nursery place for a child under two sets parents in Britain back, on average, £7,134 a year. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-opinion-responsibility-statecare-young-children.html Education Political science Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:49:04 EDT news617021341 Ireland has formally opened the new women's wing of the Limerick prison. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-prison-ireland-history-penal-reform.html Social Sciences Political science Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:47:03 EDT news617021221 A large-scale review of two key U.K. policy areas reveals that health outcomes are largely missing when it comes to shaping our urban centers. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-uk-healthy-urban-policies.html Political science Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:37:03 EDT news616948621 In a comprehensive analysis of news consumption across the globe, a recent report by Reuters concluded that "interest in news continues to decline, fueling disengagement and selective news avoidance." In the 46 countries surveyed in the report, public interest in news has dropped significantly in the UK, France, the US and Spain over the eight-year period from 2015 to 2023. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-people-experiencing-news-fatigue-voters.html Social Sciences Political science Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:40:01 EDT news616941106 Across the roughly 1,300 square miles of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota, tribal members harvest wild rice in waters that have sustained them for generations. They've been working for decades to restore sturgeon, a culturally important fish, and they harvest minnows and leeches to supply bait for anglers across the country. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-native-lack-tribes.html Political science Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:28:05 EDT news616940882 A new EPFL developed tool, Quotebank, has helped researchers provide the first large-scale data-driven evidence of a drastic shift towards a more negative political tone beginning at the start of Donald Trump's primary campaign in June 2015. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-tool-shift-negative-political-tone.html Political science Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:47:04 EDT news616938421 It may have gone unnoticed with the Voice to Parliament referendum and the disability royal commission report, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also recently announced a major independent review of Australia's intelligence communities. It's the first since the COVID pandemic. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-australia-major-intelligence-covid-key.html Political science Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:06:03 EDT news616935961 Discussions around science and technology can become controversial, such as public conversations around climate science or gene-editing tools. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-science-technology-positive-impacts-society.html Social Sciences Political science Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:05:04 EDT news616935902 Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse claimants, academics have warned. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-refugee-legal-reforms-disproportionate-impact.html Social Sciences Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:49:03 EDT news616866541 More than 4,100 people are currently serving time behind the walls of California's prisons for women. Activist Jayda Rasberry was once one of them. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-impact-long-term-sentencing-california-women.html Social Sciences Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:38:03 EDT news616862281 Children living in Gaza have never known anything but overcrowding, shortages, conflict and danger. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-gaza-conflict-children-affected.html Social Sciences Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:13:04 EDT news616857181 American workplaces talk a lot about diversity these days. In fact, you'd have a hard time finding a company that says it doesn't value the principle. But despite this—and despite the multibillion-dollar diversity industry—Black workers continue to face significant hiring discrimination, stall out at middle management levels and remain underrepresented in leadership roles. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-black-scientist-nonprofit-filmmaker-common.html Social Sciences Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:10:05 EDT news616857001 Most food banks, homeless shelters and other social services nonprofits constantly face hard decisions about how to use their limited funds. Should they spend as much as possible on meeting the immediate needs of people who need help? How much of their budget is appropriate to spend on new equipment, skilled managers and everything else required for an organization to thrive and endure? https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nonprofits-resilient-fundraising-admin.html Economics & Business Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:07:03 EDT news616856821 Sexual harassment encompasses a wide range of inappropriate behavior, from ogling, touching and commenting about body parts, to sexual proposition, coercion, assault and rape. In other words, it is any form of unsolicited and unwanted sexual attention. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-sexual-victims-nigerian-universities-blamedcyberspace.html Social Sciences Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:59:18 EDT news616856355 A two-part training designed to help police officers recognize their implicit bias, revealed some behavior improvement and lowered citizen discrimination complaints in a controlled study. While a small study involving one police department, it is the first-known research to provide evidence that this type of training can produce positive behavioral effects. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-police-implicit-bias-modest.html Social Sciences Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:15:04 EDT news616850102 New research by Valentina Bosetti (Department of Economics) and Italo Colantone (Department of Social and Political Sciences) suggests that Western policymakers wanting to make progress on climate action should address the distributional consequences of international trade. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-green-vote-import-competition-people.html Economics & Business Political science Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:16:04 EDT news616842961 Nearly $1.23 billion has been spent by the U.S. government since 2004 on the cleanup of toxic pollutants in waterways resulting from manufacturing activities in historic areas around the Great Lakes. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-federal-grants-pollution-remediation-property.html Economics & Business Political science Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:12:03 EDT news616777922 What if all of the UK's 48,000 hairdressing salons and barbershops started sharing water and energy-saving advice with their clients, alongside a clipper cut or a wash and blow dry? Previous studies have demonstrated that hairdressers can shape customers' environmental behavior with guidance they can trust and that relates to their everyday lives. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-smaller-businesses-net-zero-enablers.html Economics & Business Political science Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:56:04 EDT news616766161 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are being challenged to make substantial reforms so that they become fit for purpose in the 21st century. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-opinion-world-bank-imf-reforming.html Economics & Business Political science Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:51:03 EDT news616765861 Cities like Vienna or Singapore are often referenced in news headlines proposing solutions for Canada's housing crisis. But the arguments in favor of the strategies employed by these far-away cities often only skim the surface and can be easily dismissed with a response of "this will never work here." https://phys.org/news/2023-10-housing-strategies-canada.html Economics & Business Political science Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:11:04 EDT news616763462 The adage of the need to remember the past to avoid repeating it is certainly applicable to international confrontations as history is filled with nations repeating conflicts again and again. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-years-conflict.html Social Sciences Political science Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:52:03 EDT news616686722 The British government should offer tax breaks for businesses developing AI-powered products and services, or applying AI to their existing operations, to "unlock the UK's potential for augmented productivity," according to a new University of Cambridge report. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-uk-ai-legislation-companies-british.html Economics & Business Political science Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:27:04 EDT news616681621 For those people focused on meeting the profound challenge of shifting our economies from fossil fuels to clean energy sources, recent headlines from Europe have made alarming reading. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-human-factor-australia-net-transition.html Economics & Business Political science Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:17:05 EDT news616681021 In March 1976, American Leonard Mack was convicted of sexual assault and holding two female victims at gunpoint. In September 2023, Mack's wrongful conviction was finally overturned by a New York judge on his 72nd birthday with the help of the Innocence Project, an organization that uses DNA evidence to prove factual innocence. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-mistaken-identity-wrongful-convictions.html Social Sciences Political science Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:59:04 EDT news616679942 Late last month, Tom Hanks warned fans that a video in which he appeared to shill for dental care was in fact an AI-generated fake. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-senators-policy-aimed-deep-fakes.html Political science Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:21:04 EDT news616418462 The Mauritius Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a law that criminalizes consensual same-sex acts between adult men. The decision boosts the trend in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region towards decriminalization. Now, a slight majority—nine out of 16 member states—do not prohibit gay and lesbian sexual relations. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-mauritius-latest-nation-decriminalize-same-sex.html Social Sciences Political science Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:46:03 EDT news616416361 The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by New Zealand police is putting the spotlight on policing tactics in the 21st century. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nz-police-ai-criminalsbut-law.html Political science Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:33:04 EDT news616415582 A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on "excited delirium," a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-doctors-group-delirium-paper-outdated.html Political science Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:09:33 EDT news616388966