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Sean Stevens Presents: The Rabbit Hole

Welcome to The Rabbit Hole, a blog that analyzes politics in the United States from an interdisciplinary perspective. Sean T. Stevens research focuses on how social attitudes and beliefs are assessed, how the psychological and societal foundations of morality relate to (and possibly somewhat determine) an individual’s political ideology, and how an individual’s political ideology influences their information-processing and decision making.

Is Redistricting/ Gerrymandering Going to Effect the Elections?

October 23, 2012 by Sean T. Stevens Leave a Comment

Map NC Redistricting Example Problem

Writer singles out state level Republicans saying their redistricting and gerrymandering going to effect the elections in some key swing states like Ohio

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American State Elections, Redistricting

On Voter ID Laws…

March 21, 2012 by Sean T. Stevens Leave a Comment

On Voter ID Laws...

Mistake the Democrats make is placing their focus on voter ID laws that require voters to present identification instead of on broader voter registration

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Voter Access, Voter ID

On Biopolitics…

March 19, 2012 by Sean T. Stevens Leave a Comment

Mammalian Education Chimpanzee

Biopolitics and how genetics exert their influence on social and political attitudes

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Religion and Democracy, Voting Technology

A (Not So) Surprising Consensus

March 13, 2012 by Sean T. Stevens 1 Comment

A (Not So) Surprising Consensus

SuperPACs can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of candidates they support; a Surprising Consensus. Of those Super PACs should be illegal

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Money Politics

When are Politics not About Morality?

March 6, 2012 by Sean T. Stevens Leave a Comment

About Morality Occupy Central Priority is Political Reform

Founder Sean Stevens writes about morality: “An individual who adopts egalitarian lens more likely to be concerned about economic inequality”

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Capitalism and Big Business, Polling, Religion and Democracy, Socialism and Labor

I Question Whether This is Truly a Representative Sample

January 20, 2012 by Sean T. Stevens Leave a Comment

Scrabble to Decide Alaska Elections.jpg

Truly a Representative Sample: Members of the media who tend to overgeneralize polling data and rarely provide much-needed critical analysis.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Polling

The Rabbit Hole – An Introduction

January 9, 2012 by Sean T. Stevens 2 Comments

American Reform Rabbit Hole

Sean Stevens Introduces The Rabbit Hole: Analyzing politics from an interdisciplinary perspective

Filed Under: DC Authors

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May 19, 2023 By Joe Mathews

“Nightcrawling” by Leila Mottley is a bestselling novel that explores the hardships of life in Oakland’s struggling streets.

Podcast: Gen Z’s Fight For Democracy

May 18, 2023 By Jenna Spinelle

In his book “Fight”, John Della Volpe argues that Gen Z has not buckled under the weight of the events that shaped them.

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April 29, 2023 By Andrew Straw

Equal protection on its face means that everyone is treated equally but the U.S. Supreme Court has limited equal protection.

Newsom’s ‘Campaign For Democracy’ Has A Democracy Problem

April 26, 2023 By Joe Mathews

The governor has sympathies for changes in governance; he’s deeply familiar with democratic innovation. But will he actually take on democratic reform?

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Between democracy and autocracy is an anocracy, defined by political scientists as a country that has elements of both forms of government.

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This bank failure, the second largest in U.S. history, actually fits a very old pattern—of California and its industries putting the economies of the nation and the world at risk.

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Rewards Get People To See Truth In Politically Unfavorable Info

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People don’t carefully evaluate links for accuracy and that partisanship may be secondary to the rush of getting a lot of likes on social media.

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