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Mass shootings and political violence

The relationship between partisan speech and individual acts of violence, with some outlets documenting empirical links and others highlighting the complexity of the issue.

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Jan 14, 2026
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Which peer‑reviewed studies examine support for political domination or violent extremism among Muslim populations and what do they find?

A body of peer‑reviewed research—ranging from large‑N cross‑national surveys to experimental psychology—examines attitudes among Muslim populations toward political violence and domination and consist...

Jan 11, 2026

How have scholars measured the effect of political rhetoric on partisan moral reasoning since 2016?

Scholars since 2016 have measured how political rhetoric shapes partisan moral reasoning using three complementary toolkits: large-scale text and network analysis of elite and social-media rhetoric, r...