On the Road to Enlightenment: Tracking Changes in Information and Exploring Knowledge Accuracy During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Information about the COVID-19 pandemic changed rapidly over time as researchers learned details about the symptoms, transmission, and prevention of the disease. The onslaught of continually changing information created confusion and misinformation shared by the public and world leaders. This study tracked weekly changes of basic information about the COVID-19 pandemic and assessed the accuracy of information learned by the participants over nine weeks. Additionally, the study assessed factors that could influence the amount of accurate information learned. Results indicated that as the weeks progressed, overall accuracy varied, but the fifth week showed a decline in scores. Lastly, trust and use of certain media sources, along with residence and education level predicted accuracy scores.

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The New Economic Populism and the Future of Inequality in the United States

10.1093/oso/9780190671013.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

William W. Franko ◽

Christopher Witko

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Federal Government ◽

Labor Unions ◽

Republican Party ◽

The United States ◽

The Public ◽

Empirical Results ◽

Income Disparities ◽

The Face ◽

Over Time

The authors conclude the book by recapping their arguments and empirical results, and discussing the possibilities for the “new economic populism” to promote egalitarian economic outcomes in the face of continuing gridlock and the dominance of Washington, DC’s policymaking institutions by business and the wealthy, and a conservative Republican Party. Many states are actually addressing inequality now, and these policies are working. Admittedly, many states also continue to embrace the policies that have contributed to growing inequality, such as tax cuts for the wealthy or attempting to weaken labor unions. But as the public grows more concerned about inequality, the authors argue, policies that help to address these income disparities will become more popular, and policies that exacerbate inequality will become less so. Over time, if history is a guide, more egalitarian policies will spread across the states, and ultimately to the federal government.

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The Telephone Problem and the Road to Telephone Regulation in the United States, 1876–1917

Journal of Policy History ◽

10.1017/s0898030600004504 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 42-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jeffrey E. Cohen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Interest Group ◽

The United States ◽

Policy Outcomes ◽

Policy Outcome ◽

The Public ◽

The Road ◽

Telephone Companies ◽

Private Interests ◽

Multiple Interest

Between 1876 and 1917, government philosophy toward telephone regulation began moving away from laissez-faire and toward some kind of involvement in economic affairs. However, while some early studies of regulation suggest business hostility to that policy, AT&T actively sought regulation, jogging government and the public in that direction. But this study is not just a restatement of the interest-group-capture theory, as offered by such economists as Stigler or historians as Kolko. Regulation resulted from the convergence of interests of many affected players, including residential and business telephone subscribers, the independent telephone companies that competed with AT&T, and the state and federal governments, as well as AT&T. I employ a multiple interest theory to account for telephone regulation, but unlike other studies using such a framework, I suggest that government is an independent actor with impact on the final policy outcome, and not merely an arena where private interests battle for control over policy outcomes, as is so common among other multiple interest studies of regulation.

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Hard Times

Eubie Blake ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190635930.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 217-252

Author(s):

Richard Carlin ◽

Ken Bloom

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Publishing Company ◽

Short Film ◽

Big Band ◽

The Road ◽

Hard Times ◽

Short Run ◽

The Creation ◽

On The Road

This chapter explores Eubie’s collaboration with Andy Razaf for the score of Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1930; difficulties of working with Leslie; the show’s poor reception and short run on Broadway; the success of Blake and Razaf’s song, “Memories of You,” and its recording by Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong; and the show’s troubled life on the road. The chapter further discusses Eubie’s return to working with Fanchon and Marco; Eubie’s breakup with Lottie Gee; his attempts to land work recording and on the radio; the formation of his own big band; the band’s recordings for the small Crown label; and Eubie’s difficulties dealing with his band members. Then the chapter examines Eubie’s appearance in the short film, Pie, Pie, Blackbird, with Nina Mae McKinney and the Nicholas Brothers; his breakup with Broadway Jones; Noble Sissle’s return to the United States and his reunion with Blake; the creation of Shuffle Along of 1933, with a new plot and new songs; and how Eubie briefly worked for W.C. Handy’s publishing company and published a few new songs and instrumentals with Handy.

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U.S.-Israeli Policies: Reading the Signs for '77

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900034550 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 19 (9) ◽

pp. 4-9

Author(s):

Mark A. Bruzonsky

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Near East ◽

The United States ◽

Recent Issue ◽

The Real ◽

The Road ◽

Democratic Candidate ◽

On The Road ◽

The U.S ◽

Sense Of Urgency

The real crunch for Israel will probably come during 1977 if Ford is elected—it will be delayed by only a few months if a Democratic candidate wins.” So writes Wolf Blitzer, editor of the “Jewish lobby's” Washington publication Near East Report, in a recent issue of the Jerusalem Post.With the same sense of urgency Abba Eban insists that “Time is of the essence, and unhappily for us, time is running out. We ought to grasp the central issues now and involve the United States in resolving them.” He and a growing number of his colleagues fear that should Israel not choose to “cooperate” with the U.S., the Americans might run right over Israel on the road to Geneva and some form of imposed settlement.

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Literary History on the Road: Transatlantic Crossings and Transpacific Crossovers

PMLA ◽

10.1632/003081204x23557 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 119 (1) ◽

pp. 92-102 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Takayuki Tatsumi

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War I ◽

American Literature ◽

Herman Melville ◽

Literary History ◽

The United States ◽

Jazz Age ◽

The Road ◽

History Of ◽

On The Road

Literary history has always mirrored discursive revolutions in world history. In the United States, the Jazz Age would not have seen the Herman Melville revival and the completion of Carl Van Doren's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917–21) without the rise of post–World War I nativism. If it had not been for Pearl Harbor, F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance (1941) could not have fully aroused the democratic spirit embedded in the heritage of New Criticism. Likewise, the postcolonial and New Americanist climate around 1990, that critical transition at the end of the cold war, brought about the publication of Emory Elliott's The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988) and Sacvan Bercovitch's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1994–). I would like to question, however, the discourse that narrates American literary history in the globalist age of the twenty-first century.

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Gender Differences on the Road to Redemption

Feminist Criminology ◽

10.1177/1557085116654566 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 182-204 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Gina Curcio ◽

April Pattavina ◽

William Fisher

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Gender Differences ◽

Representative Sample ◽

The United States ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Criminal Offense ◽

The Road ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

On The Road

Redemption research examines how much time must pass after a criminal offense before an offender is considered “redeemed.” This study adds to redemption research by using a nationally representative sample from the United States to determine whether years to redemption found in prior research replicate and will be the first to determine whether there are gender differences. We also explore factors that influence who makes it to the redemption point. Findings reveal that while men reach the redemption point after 10 years, women reach the redemption point after 4 years. Policy implications of these findings are discussed.

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