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The Selective Enforcement of Government Regulations: Battleground States, State Regulators, and the Environmental Protection Agency

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By Huseyin Gulen, Brett Myers
| uchicago.edu
The Electoral College creates incentives for politicians and regulators to direct policy favors toward battleground or swing states. We examine whether this affects regulatory enforcement and find that facilities in battleground states are less likely to be found in violation of the Clean Water Act, partially because the permit limits for facilities in these states are less restrictive.
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Playing with words: How the Brysbaert lab developed a new battery of language tests

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By Brett Myers
| psychonomic.org
“The impious warbler delved into the paltry aperitif and anointed the pumice with ineffable rigmarole.” That’s a sentence with a lot of big words (and I hope it’s never been uttered before), but if you understood that I was referring to a nasty little bird that wiped some booze on a rock, then you may do very well on a new vocabulary test that was released this year! Each of those ten-dollar words requires some advanced knowledge of vocabulary, and that’s exactly what this new test sought out...
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