Throwback to a 2018 paper: The Persuasive Power of Protest. How Protest wins Public Support

How do protest actions succeed in winning public support? In this paper, Wouters theorizes how features of protest can persuade citizens to support demonstrators.
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Orit Avishai’s Queer Judaism entrenches readers in the world of strongly devoted Zionist Jews who inhabit illegal West Bank settlements—and who are LGBT.

Read a review of “Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel” here:
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Periodic reminder: a substantial fraction of households is pushed into poverty by the redistributive system ⬇️ Joint work with Rourke OBrien now #openaccess in the most recent issue Social Forces! doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

“How Segregation Ruins Inference: A Sociological Simulation of the Inequality Equilibrium” 👇

what a great day to be a social scientist

Happening Now: Forrest Stuart at UNC-Chapel Hill giving a talk: “Institutional Decision-Making in the Digital Age: The Case of Social Media Data in Criminal Courts”

'We find that breastfeeding is associated with small benefits for behavioral development, math scores and academic ability among those with the highest propensities to breastfeed.'

Best for Whom? Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Breastfeeding
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