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RE: https://mas.to/@thecontinent/117253179327056947

'In response to Namibia’s refusal to share its national health data, the United States will stop funding its HIV-response programme from 2027'

There's a lot of interesting material in this issue but I'm curious how many folks might believe that the Australian Gvt are not under the same pressure to surrender protected datasets on Australian populations (albeit with a different set of coercions)

#ausPol #publicPolicy

What Can Brazil Learn from Global Cybersecurity Regulation?

This is the second and final article on the lessons Brazil can draw from the cybersecurity regulatory initiatives…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Telefónica #Cybersecurity #PublicPolicy
https://www.europesays.com/spain/83431/

DATE: August 28, 2026 at 12:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: The gender gap in politics is not widening as much as you think

URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-gender-gap-in-politics-is-not-widening-as-much-as-you-think/

Despite popular narratives about a widening political divide between men and women, the gender gap on most social and cultural issues has remained relatively stable over the past two decades. A recent analysis of public opinion data reveals that while men and women often hold different views, their attitudes shift in parallel in response to current events. The research was published in Social Science Quarterly.

Researchers have tracked differences in political attitudes between men and women for over half a century. Women typically show higher support for social welfare and environmental protection, a trend often linked to socialization around caregiving and economic vulnerability. On the other hand, differences between the sexes are often smaller or less predictable on morality issues like abortion or immigration.

Some scholars suggest that younger, more egalitarian generations are driving a wedge between the sexes as they replace older generations. This type of generational change is known as a cohort effect. It happens when a specific age group develops distinct attitudes during their formative years and carries those views throughout their lives. As older generations pass away and younger ones enter the electorate, the overall public opinion shifts.

Alternatively, changes in public opinion might stem from period effects. These are widespread shifts in attitudes caused by historical events, such as a major economic recession or a global pandemic, which influence people of all ages at the same time. Political scientists April K. Clark of Northern Illinois University, Izabelle P. Chick and Juliet E. Carlisle of the University of Utah, and Eric R. A. N. Smith of the University of California, Santa Barbara, designed a study to see which of these two forces actually shapes the gender gap.

The research team analyzed data from the Gallup Poll Social Series. They looked at national surveys conducted annually between 2000 and 2024. The researchers organized responses to ten specific social and cultural issues into three distinct categories.

The first category focused on care and social protection, which included issues like hunger and homelessness, crime and violence, drug use, and healthcare access. The second category covered social stability and societal change, encompassing race relations, illegal immigration, and the quality of the environment. For these first two categories, respondents were asked to rate how much they personally worried about each problem.

The final category centered on morality and rights conflicts, specifically abortion policies, gun laws, and LGBTQ+ acceptance. For this category, respondents rated their level of satisfaction with the nation’s policies or social climate.

Using a statistical technique known as cross-classified random effects modeling, the researchers evaluated how opinions changed over time. This approach allowed them to separate the influence of a person’s birth year from the specific year they took the survey. In doing so, they could isolate whether generational replacement or time-specific events were responsible for shifts in public opinion. They also accounted for individual demographic factors like educational attainment, income, race, marital status, and political ideology.

Across nearly all the issues studied, the researchers found that period effects accounted for a large share of the variation in attitudes. When major national events occurred, the opinions of both men and women shifted in the same direction. Generational differences, or cohort effects, played a much smaller and less consistent role in changing public opinion.

Women consistently expressed higher levels of worry than men regarding care and social protection issues, such as hunger, homelessness, and healthcare. Yet, when concern spiked, as it did during the 2008 economic recession and the COVID-19 pandemic, it spiked for both sexes equally. Following these peaks, worry generally decreased for both groups. Because men and women responded to these external shocks similarly, the overall distance between their opinions barely changed.

The researchers observed similar parallel movements on issues of crime and drug use. Concern about both topics has generally declined since the early 2000s among all respondents. This downward trend aligns with documented drops in actual crime rates over the same period.

Similar patterns emerged in the other categories. Men and women showed comparable levels of concern regarding race relations and illegal immigration. Their views on these topics rose and fell together over the last two decades. The fluctuations regarding race relations likely reflect heightened public awareness in response to specific cultural moments, such as the Black Lives Matter movement. While the researchers noted a slight gap regarding the environment, with women expressing more worry, the two groups experienced parallel increases in concern in recent years.

On matters of morality and rights, satisfaction levels fluctuated in tandem for both sexes. Satisfaction with the nation’s abortion policies and gun laws has generally declined since the early 2000s for all respondents. Decreased satisfaction with gun policies in the early 2010s, for instance, aligns with the public outcry following the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. On the other hand, satisfaction with LGBTQ+ acceptance grew steadily among both men and women throughout the study period.

The findings indicate that the idea of a growing culture war strictly divided by gender might be inaccurate. Instead of drifting apart into separate ideological camps, men and women appear to process and react to national events in similar ways. Broad social, economic, and political developments shape public opinion much more than any gender-specific divergence.

The study has certain boundaries. The data analysis begins in 2000, meaning it does not capture earlier decades when foundational shifts in gender roles and partisan alignments first occurred. Because the observed opinion shifts are primarily driven by current events rather than permanent generational changes, today’s trends might not predict future public opinion. An economic downturn, a major court decision, or a large policy shift could alter the current trajectory of these attitudes.

Future studies might expand the timeline to include earlier decades and incorporate more specific data on how factors like race, class, and geography interact with gender. Examining differences among women or among men, such as comparing married and unmarried individuals, could provide a more detailed picture of how political attitudes form in the United States.

The study, “Generational Shifts and Gendered Divides: Exploring Attitudes on Social, Cultural, and Political Issues in the United States,” was authored by April K. Clark, Izabelle P. Chick, Juliet E. Carlisle, and Eric R. A. N. Smith.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-gender-gap-in-politics-is-not-widening-as-much-as-you-think/

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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.

Breaking: March to the White House breaks out at the All of U.S. 250 Rally in Washington, D.C.!

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#Coup #Activism #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #NoKings #elections #50501Movement #WeAreTheResistance #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #FDT #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #protest #organize

#MarchToTheWhiteHouse #AllOfUs250 #DCRally #WashingtonDC #PoliticalDemonstration #USPolitics #RallyForChange #PublicPolicy #DemocracyInAction #FindAProtest

This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
"Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
"We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

Hettie O’Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

#mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

State Primaries Today Put California’s Political Future in the Spotlight

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/state-primaries-today/

State Primaries Today Put California’s Political Future in the Spotlight

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/state-primaries-today/

State Primaries Today Put California’s Political Future in the Spotlight

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/state-primaries-today/

School Kits, Big Impact: Inside El Salvador’s Quiet Education Push

Dear Cherubs, there’s something oddly powerful about a cardboard box that doesn’t contain chaos, delivery delays, or “please assemble yourself” furniture instructions. In El Salvador, it contains something far rarer: opportunity, neatly folded and mildly creased.

Across the country, thousands of children have been receiving full school kits—uniforms, shoes, books, stationery, backpacks, and in some cases digital devices—aimed at reducing the everyday friction that keeps education just out of reach. According to UNICEF, such school supply initiatives are widely used in developing education systems to improve attendance and reduce dropout rates, especially among lower-income families.

THE BOX THAT CHANGED THE MORNING ROUTINE

On paper, it sounds simple: give kids the tools they need for school. In practice, it’s a quiet reshaping of daily life. No scrambling for notebooks. No “borrow a pen again?” conversations. Just a child getting ready for school without the background noise of scarcity.

The initiative has been associated with government-led education support programs in El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele’s administration, which has prioritised visible social interventions alongside broader security reforms. As noted by thisclaimer.com in its coverage of public welfare initiatives, such programs often carry a dual effect: practical support for families and a strong symbolic message about inclusion.

One widely shared moment showed a young girl opening her kit and reacting with visible excitement. Not because it was luxurious, but because it was enough. And sometimes, enough is revolutionary in its own quiet, inconvenient way.

DIGNITY, BUT MAKE IT PRACTICAL

Here’s the uncomfortable part: school supplies shouldn’t feel like a headline. They should feel like background noise. Yet in many regions, they still function as a financial barrier disguised as a shopping list.

Critics of large-scale distribution programs often point out logistical challenges and long-term sustainability questions. Fair. But supporters argue that immediate access matters more than theoretical perfection when children are currently sitting in classrooms without basic tools.

And there’s a dry irony here: we live in a world where high-tech solutions for education are debated in conference rooms, while the simplest fix—actually giving kids what they need to learn—still qualifies as a policy achievement.

The emotional centre of this story isn’t political branding or viral clips. It’s a child seeing possibility packaged in a backpack and not having to translate it into something else to understand it.

Whether one views these initiatives as transformative policy or practical optics, the result on the ground is hard to ignore: fewer barriers between a child and a classroom.

And maybe that’s the real headline nobody prints loudly enough: sometimes progress doesn’t arrive as disruption. Sometimes it just arrives on time.

Sources list:
UNICEF — https://www.unicef.org/
World Bank Education Overview — https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education
Government of El Salvador — https://www.presidencia.gob.sv/
BBC News Education Coverage — https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cp7r8vgl2lgt

Nudge theory was all about taking responsibility – but it allowed big business to look the other way
#NudgeTheory #BehavioralEconomics #PublicPolicy #CorporateAccountability #SystemicChange #Economics #SocialPolicy #ClimatePolicy #Governance #Inequality
https://the-14.com/nudge-theory-was-all-about-taking-responsibility-but-it-allowed-big-business-to-look-the-other-way/

A quotation from Mark Twain

Laws are coldly reasoned out and established upon what the lawmakers believe to be a basis of right. But customs are not. Customs are not enacted, they grow gradually up, imperceptibly and unconsciously, like an oak from its seed. In the fullness of their strength they can stand up straight in front of a world of argument and reasoning and yield not an inch.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84113/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicopinion #publicpolicy #punishment #rationality #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression

Home ownership is a false promise in Canada
#Canada #Housing #HomeOwnership #Renters #Economy #HousingCrisis #Inequality #PublicPolicy #UrbanStudies #Montreal #Quebec #AffordableHousing #TenantsRights #HousingJustice #SocialPolicy #RealEstate #Property
https://the-14.com/home-ownership-is-a-false-promise-in-canada/

Amanhã, 3 de Outubro, em Braga, realiza-se a terceira reunião aberta do Grupo de Trabalho em Políticas Públicas de Arquivo do #IN2PAST, sob o tema "Avaliação, selecção, incorporação, tratamento e digitalização da documentação: práticas e desafios".

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/avaliacao-seleccao-incorporacao/

#Histodons #Archives #Arquivística #Arquivos #História #HumanidadesDigitais #DigitalHumanities #PublicPolicy #PolíticasPúblicas #ArchivalPractices

"The market economy will not grow in a socially desirable direction on its own. Rather—as my book The Entrepreneurial State stressed over 10 years ago—a dynamic, capable public sector with a decentralized network of public institutions across the innovation chain can shape the direction of growth toward more socially desirable outcomes. The public sector needs to develop competent and well-equipped national, regional, and local governments that can work together to deploy tools like outcomes-oriented procurement and strategic public investment. Unfortunately, the new government initiative so-called the Department of Government Efficiency appears to be a regurgitation of new public management theory—the idea that private-sector management practices should be applied to the delivery of public services, based on the assumption that the government’s attempts to make things better for people could actually make them worse. This contradicts what we need to do: invest in our public sector to develop the dynamic capabilities necessary to foster innovation-led sustainable and inclusive economic growth. And ultimately, this is not about the state doing everything itself—it is also about having the capacity required to work well with others, including private sector actors."

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/mission-oriented-framework-for-economy/

#PublicInvestment #State #EntrepreneurialState #PublicAdministration #PublicPolicy

Check out this article in Public Administration Review I worked on with colleagues at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration in which we interrogate the conceptualization of race in the representative bureaucracy literature using Alvesson and Sandberg's "problematizing review" process:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/puar.13640

#representativebureaucracy #publicpolicy #publicadministration #publicmanagement #problematizingreview
#race

Check out this article in Public Administration Review I worked on with colleagues at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration in which we interrogate the conceptualization of race in the representative bureaucracy literature using Alvesson and Sandberg's "problematizing review" process:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/puar.13640

#representativebureaucracy #publicpolicy #publicadministration #publicmanagement #problematizingreview
#race

Check out this article in Public Administration Review I worked on with colleagues at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration in which we interrogate the conceptualization of race in the representative bureaucracy literature using Alvesson and Sandberg's "problematizing review" process:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/puar.13640

#representativebureaucracy #publicpolicy #publicadministration #publicmanagement #problematizingreview
#race

Catching up with Mayor Jim Langfelder at the Investiture of @UISedu Chancellor Janet Gooch. What a great time to study with the School of Public Management and Policy in @Springfield_IL!
#PublicManagement #PublicPolicy #PublicAdministration #MPA #MPP

Catching up with Mayor Jim Langfelder at the Investiture of @UISedu Chancellor Janet Gooch. What a great time to study with the School of Public Management and Policy in @Springfield_IL!
#PublicManagement #PublicPolicy #PublicAdministration #MPA #MPP

Catching up with Mayor Jim Langfelder at the Investiture of @UISedu Chancellor Janet Gooch. What a great time to study with the School of Public Management and Policy in @Springfield_IL!
#PublicManagement #PublicPolicy #PublicAdministration #MPA #MPP

Grateful to have @LtGovStratton as a partner for #HigherEducation in #Illinois. Celebrating the Investiture of Dr. Janet Gooch as the new Chancellor at @UISedu with the School of Public Policy and Management.
#PublicManagement #PublicPolicy #PublicAdministration #MPA #MPP

Grateful to have @LtGovStratton as a partner for #HigherEducation in #Illinois. Celebrating the Investiture of Dr. Janet Gooch as the new Chancellor at @UISedu with the School of Public Policy and Management.
#PublicManagement #PublicPolicy #PublicAdministration #MPA #MPP

Grateful to have @LtGovStratton as a partner for #HigherEducation in #Illinois. Celebrating the Investiture of Dr. Janet Gooch as the new Chancellor at @UISedu with the School of Public Policy and Management.
#PublicManagement #PublicPolicy #PublicAdministration #MPA #MPP

#Introduction I study #hybrid #organizations and hybrid #governance arrangements, such as #SocialEnterprises and other forms of #SocialInnovation at the border area between state, market and community. I do this at the Department of #PublicAdministration and Sociology of #ErasmusUniversity #Rotterdam

I combine insights from the fields of #PublicPolicy and #PublicManagement and aim to bridge the divide between theory and practice.

See www.hybridorganizations.com for more.

#Introduction I study #hybrid #organizations and hybrid #governance arrangements, such as #SocialEnterprises and other forms of #SocialInnovation at the border area between state, market and community. I do this at the Department of #PublicAdministration and Sociology of #ErasmusUniversity #Rotterdam

I combine insights from the fields of #PublicPolicy and #PublicManagement and aim to bridge the divide between theory and practice.

See www.hybridorganizations.com for more.

Any suggested readings on typology of bureaucratic agencies especially in relations to the political regime?

#socialscience #politicalscience #polisci #publicadmin #publicadministration #publicpolicy #publicmanagement #bureaucracy #academicmastodon #academictwitter

Any suggested readings on typology of bureaucratic agencies especially in relations to the political regime?

#SocialScience #PoliticalScience #PoliSci #PublicAdmin #PublicAdministration #PublicPolicy #PublicManagement #Bureaucracy #AcademicMastodon #AcademicTwitter

#Introduction Hi everyone! I'm Kate. I'm a new faculty member at #UMass Dartmouth Department of Public Policy. I'm an #FSU and #Pitt alum and a #PolicyProcess scholar.

My research includes #Equity in food systems’ and #Sustainability policies, #Governance, and #PublicManagement.

I also post about #parenting, #knitting, and my big fluffy dog.

Other hashtags: #Academia #PublicAdmin #PublicPolicy #PoliSci #LocalGov #FoodSystems #Urban #Local #AcademicTwitter #TwitterMigration #AcademicMom

#Introduction Hi everyone! I'm Kate. I'm a new faculty member at #UMass Dartmouth Department of Public Policy. I'm an #FSU and #Pitt alum and a #PolicyProcess scholar.

My research includes #Equity in food systems’ and #Sustainability policies, #Governance, and #PublicManagement.

I also post about #parenting, #knitting, and my big fluffy dog.

Other hashtags: #Academia #PublicAdmin #PublicPolicy #PoliSci #LocalGov #FoodSystems #Urban #Local #AcademicTwitter #TwitterMigration #AcademicMom