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  • Who Follows Whom?

    The Role of Geography and Similarity in Online Attention Networks

    by Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Zhen Guo, Nir Grinberg, David Lazer ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Communication
    Follower ties play a major role in many social media platforms, representing users' choices on what content to pay attention to. This Element examines the role of geography and similarity by gender, age, race, and partisanship with respect to attention in social media by studying the follower ties among 1.1 million Twitter accounts matched to U.S. voter records. We find that geographic proximity ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Politics with the People

    Building a Directly Representative Democracy

    by Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, David M. J. Lazer ...
    Series Book 555 - Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of 'directly representative democracy' - a new way of connecting citizens and elected officials to improve representative government. Sitting members of Congress agreed to meet with groups of their constituents via online, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Black Networks Matter

    The Role of Interracial Contact and Social Media in the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests

    by Matthew David Simonson, Ray Block Jr, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, David M. J. Lazer ...
    Series series Elements in Contentious Politics
    Scholars have long recognized that interpersonal networks play a role in mobilizing social movements. Yet, many questions remain. This Element addresses these questions by theorizing about three dimensions of ties: emotionally strong or weak, movement insider or outsider, and ingroup or cross-cleavage. The survey data on the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests show that weak and cross-cleavage ties ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    Edited by Steffen Pötzschke, Sebastian Rinken ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and ... Read more

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  • Education Policy

    Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Practice

    by Jerome G. Delaney ...
    What exactly is education policy, why is it important, and how is it implemented in the real world? Jerome Delaney, a professor of educational administration and former high school principal, answers the big questions about education policy in this powerful and practical primer for students. Informed by his experience in the public school system, Delaney takes a pragmatic and realistic approach ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Human-Centered Data Science

    An Introduction

    by Cecilia Aragon, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Michael Muller, Gina Neff ...
    Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the ... Read more

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  • The Power of Organizations

    A New Approach to Organizational Theory

    by Heather A. Haveman ...
    How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

    Edited by Grant Blank, Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee ...
    Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.Bringing together the leading names in ... Read more

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  • Public Management and Performance

    Research Directions

    Edited by Richard M. Walker, George A. Boyne, Gene A. Brewer ...
    Public services touch the majority of people in advanced and developing economies on a daily basis: children require schooling, the elderly need personal care and assistance, rubbish needs collecting, water must be safe to drink and the streets need policing. In short, there is practically no area of our lives that isn't touched in some way by public services. As such, knowledge about strategies ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods

    Edited by Anabel Quan-Haase, Luke Sloan ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods spans the entire research process, from data collection to analysis and interpretation. This second edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded, from 39 to 49 chapters. In addition to a new section of chapters focussing on ethics, privacy and the politics of social media data, the new edition provides broader coverage of topics such as ... Read more

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  • Inside Graduate Admissions

    Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping

    by Julie R. Posselt ...
    How does graduate admissions work? Who does the system work for, and who falls through its cracks? More people than ever seek graduate degrees, but little has been written about who gets in and why. Drawing on firsthand observations of admission committees and interviews with faculty in 10 top-ranked doctoral programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, education professor ... Read more

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