A new study has thrown doubt on the ability of the average voter to make an accurate judgement of the performance of their politicians, showing that voter biases appear to be deep-seated and broad.…
The December Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Public support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)’.…
Research into food banking highlights the importance of rights-based approaches to food experiences in the UK. Research published in the Journal of Social Policy explores the rise of the UK’s first national scale food banking initiative and discusses the importance of food rights for providing social policy makers and researchers with a framework for approaching food issues.…
Employment is usually associated with health benefits over unemployment, however, an article by a group of researchers from Australia and the UK has shown that having a job with poor psychosocial quality can be as bad for mental health as being unemployed.…
There are ever-increasing demands on authors/researchers from both local and national authorities not only to publish widely but to do so in “reputable” journals.…
For those not familiar with Annals of Actuarial Science, what does the journal cover? Annals of Actuarial Science (AAS) publishes research papers in all areas of actuarial science.…
How has oil shaped American Culture? How do we explain the dominance of oil capitalism in American society? How has oil impacted on media, film, propaganda and art in the past 150 years?…
More than a century’s worth of political science research and insight from the American Political Science Association (APSA) is being added to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) Digital Archive with the first additions of seminal political journals the American Political Science Review (APSR) and PS: Political Science and Politics (PS).…
The most recent issue of English Today (28/3) is a special issue on the topic of ‘English in China today’. It includes ten articles dealing with different aspects of the spread of English and the uses of English in contemporary China, with contributions from leading Chinese academics as well as commentators from outside the country.…
The next issue of the PS: Political Science & Politics, scheduled for release in late September, features a range of forecasting models for the upcoming 2012 presidential election in November.…
The 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting & Exhibition, set to begin August 30, 2012 in New Orleans, was canceled as Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.…
Sustainability and the wealth of nations have concerned economists for many decades, with economists trying to answer important questions such as: – How can we measure the wealth of nations?…
The US struggle for hearts and minds in Muslim countries has been aiming at the wrong targets, a new study claims.…
Some of the most important decisions that a journals publisher has to make involve selecting a new editorial team. This process can take many months, and can require careful analysis of both objective and subjective factors.…
The global energy outlook today easily matches the toughest challenges of the 1970’s oil crises. We face growing energy demands from developing nations, higher projected electricity use in developed countries, unprecedented pressure on global oil supplies, an uncomfortable dependence in Western Europe on Russian gas and an on-going debate about emissions and pollution caused by growing energy use.…
For some years there has been an unsupported belief among governments that rising costs of higher education will be accompanied by potential students behaving more like customers and choosing universities on the basis of the quality of the education that they will be paying for. …
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