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Senior Miao elected to College Democrats board

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Miao is one of 10 students who will represent 100,000 College Democrats in the nation and the first Washington University student to be elected to the executive board.

Are bots winning the war to control social media?

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Recent statistical analysis shows that armies of bots have infiltrated Twitter, and the bot about to influence you is already inside your feed.

Tavits installed as the Dr. William Taussig Professor

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Margit Tavits, chair and professor of political science, was installed Oct. 19 as the Dr. William Taussig Professor in Arts & Sciences.

Professor Tavits Awarded Global Incubator Seed Grant

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Congratulations to Professor Margit Tavits for receiving $25,000 Global Incubator Seed Grant from the McDonnell International Scholars Academy and Office of the Provost for her proposal on "The Behavioral and Attitudinal Effects of Voter ID."

Professors Carter & Gabel Awarded Funding from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures

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Congratulations to Professors David Cater and Matt Gabel and their collaborators Michael Espositio and Mark Huffman on being awarded $261,500 in funding from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures for their cluster proposal of "Trust and Public Health."

Professor Lucas Awarded Seed-Grant from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures

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Congratulations to Professor Christopher Lucas and collaborators Soumendra Lahiri and Andrew Jordan on receiving a cluster seed-grant of $89,000 from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures for "Police Body Camera Metadata."

Professor Enamorado Awarded Funding from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures

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Congratulations Professor Ted Enamorado and collaborators Soumendra Lahiri and Kunal Agrawal have been awarded $10,000 in funding from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures for their proposal on "Improving Data Integration Techniques."

The Well-Ordered Republic by Frank Lovett

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Frank Lovett is Professor of Political Science and Director of Legal Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2004, and from 2008-2009 he was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. His book A General Theory of Domination and Justice (OUP) won the APSA Foundations First Book Award for 2010. His primary research concerns the role of freedom and domination in developing theories of justice, equality, and the rule of law.

Taylor Carlson published in New Media & Society

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"Not who you think? Exposure and vulnerability to misinformation" considers the possibility that certain individuals hold misinformed beliefs without encountering misinformation, thus questioning for whom exposure to “fake news” is most deleterious.

Professor Enamorado published in the Journal of Politics

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Professor Ted Enamorado published an article, "Jailed While Presumed Innocent: The Demobilizing Effects of Pretrial Incarceration" in the Journal of Politics.

Professors Aksoy & Tavits published in Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Professor Deniz Aksoy, Professor Margit Tavits, and co-author, Andrew Menger, published a new paper, "The Effect of Curfews on Political Preferences" in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

When presidential power meets public opinion

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In a new book, political scientist Andrew Reeves explores the origins and consequences of public antipathy toward the unilateral use of presidential power.