This review examines policy feedback effects among the mass public, with a focus on social
policies in the United States and Europe. It shows that existing policies feed back into the …

In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater
efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David …

In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David Newman shows students
how to see the" unfamiliar in the familiar"—to step back and see organization and …

When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly
pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically …

Do voters reward presidents for increased federal spending in their local constituencies?
Previous research on the electoral consequences of federal spending has focused almost …

Why are democracies pursuing more military conflicts, but achieving worse results?
Democratic Militarism shows that a combination of economic inequality and military …

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the
modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic …

When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other"
invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their …

We test the political cost hypothesis using local soldier fatalities as a source of as-if-random
variation in the threat of political costs for local defense firms. Soldier fatalities vary the threat …

Scholars across international relations (IR) debate the role military experience plays in elite
decision-making. I argue there are two critical problems with this debate. First, it fails to …