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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?

by Sean T. Stevens - October 23, 2012

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…

by Sean T. Stevens - March 21, 2012

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…

by Sean T. Stevens - March 19, 2012

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

by Sean T. Stevens - March 13, 2012

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?

by Sean T. Stevens - March 6, 2012

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

by Sean T. Stevens - January 20, 2012

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

by Sean T. Stevens - January 9, 2012

American Reform Rabbit Hole

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

Filed Under: DC Authors

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Harnessing The Power Of “We The People” On Independence Day

By Jenna Spinelle July 3, 2022

Democracy does not have a singular definition, which is one of the things that makes it so interesting to me — and undoubtedly to many of you.

Florida Doesn’t Need a Speech Czar

By Steve Schneider June 28, 2022

Full disclosure: I’m a liberal Democrat. So, I won’t be sending in my vote-by-mail ballot for Ron DeSantis in November. Nor will I vote for him in 2024.

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By Jenna Spinelle June 25, 2022

Several activists and average citizens have changed their communities and the country by taking important issues directly to votes.

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By Jenna Spinelle June 8, 2022

The summer will be legally and politically charged particularly with the January 6 committee hearings scheduled to begin June 9.

Can American Democracy Have Nice Things?

By Jenna Spinelle June 7, 2022

Universal voting would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens.

PODCAST: Baby Boomers And American Gerontocracy

By Jenna Spinelle May 23, 2022

Older and younger voters are increasingly at odds: Republicans as a whole skew gray-haired, and within the Democratis, the left-leaning youth vote.

A Dangerous Reprise Of American Exceptionalism In Ukraine

By Jamie Lampidis May 15, 2022

The stakes are too high to cave into Putin’s phantasmatic imperial play, and too high to believe that this war can be won by arming Ukrainians.

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Goodbye Roe v. Wade, Goodbye Rule Of Law

By Andrew Straw May 5, 2022

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India: Why Are Punjab Political Singers Under Attack?

India: Why Are Punjab Political Singers Under Attack?

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The murder of Sidhu Moose Wala has brought attention to the link between Punjabi music and India’s cross-border criminal networks.

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University Educated Less Likely To Endorse Authoritarianism

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Higher education is now seen as a new political cleavage, with level of education increasingly important in describing political attitudes.

From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

May 25, 2022

The atmosphere in the interstate polling booth in Sydney’s inner east resembled that of an emergency room waiting for a donor organ.

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Kenyan ‘Cartooning For Peace’ To Draw Africa Towards Democracy

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Anxious Leaders Influence Their Followers' Anxiety, Even Online

Anxious Leaders Influence Their Followers’ Anxiety, Even Online

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Organizational leader’s tweets can influence employee anxieties and this effect is more prominent since the rise of COVID-19, study.

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