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Professional lobbyists: Pragmatic operatives or just another partisan resource?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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The thousands of professional lobbyists working in Washington, DC on issues tend to be professional partisans who mobilize resources for one preferred political party exclusively. So finds a new study which counters the common ...
Better science, please
May 21, 2009 |
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Just when you thought that the industry that made money on bisphenol A could not have been any cozier with the federal agency regulating the chemical comes another revelation. Cozy? How about joined at the hip?
Nonprofit aims to broaden reach of campaign data
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A nonprofit group that specializes in databases tracking the influence of money in politics is making its information available to others.
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Sports drinks face junk food label
Sep 26, 2007 |
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Public health advocates are lobbying for limits on the availability of sports drinks such as Gatorade and Powerade in high school vending machines.
Support grows for McDowell FCC nomination
Jan 25, 2006 |
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Support for the nomination of telecom lobbyist Robert McDowell for the Federal Communications Commission seemed to be solidifying in Washington Wednesday.
85% Of Young People Would Be More Inclined To Go Into Politics If They Had More Information
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent poll conducted by The George Washington University Graduate School of Public Management’s new PoliticsUnder30.org initiative, 85% of respondents answered yes when asked if having a comprehensive ...
Honeybees overcome negative buzz in Washington
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Official Washington is all abuzz over honeybees.
Scientists urged to make a stand on climate change
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Scientists must work harder at making the public aware of the stark difference between good science and "denialist spin".
Tax lobbying provides 22,000 percent return to multinational firms, KU researchers find
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Three professors at the University of Kansas have found that a one-time tax break allowed multinational corporations to receive a 22,000 percent average return on lobbying expenditures.
It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only ...
Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis
Nov 24, 2009 |
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The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...
White House, hospitals reach deal on health care
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nation's hospitals will give up $155 billion in future Medicare and Medicaid payments to help defray the cost of President Barack Obama's health care plan, a concession the White House hopes will boost an overhaul ...
Tech's new love
Aug 21, 2009 |
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There was a time in Silicon Valley when the political game was practically sneered upon.
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