Noted: Markus Brauer, a UW-Madison psychology professor who studies behavior modification comment: ?”‘Prescriptive norms’ tell people what is the right thing to do. And there are many studies suggesting that people’s perceptions of prescriptive norms are heavily influenced by the leadership, in the positive and in the negative direction.”
Noted: Dr Jeri Barak, from the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “It would be fair to conclude that if Salmonella is present in salads, it might grow to infectious doses.
Noted: “We have seen a glimpse of the future,” says Tom Eggert, a senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the executive director of the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council tells The Christian Science Monitor by phone. “The future is that federal and state governments will not be playing as much of a leadership role in the sustainability space as private corporations.”
Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Trump margin comes up short in another way. From 1952 to 2012, the winning candidate got an average of 73 percent of the electoral votes, well above Trump’s 57 percent.
Phony news stories are thriving on social media, so much so President Obama addressed it. Interviewed: SJMC’s Lucas Graves
Quoted: “They reverse lower courts sometimes so it’s not out of the ordinary that a court would do this,” said Keith Findley, co-director of the innocence project at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interviewed: Professor Liad Weiss, Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: The promise to “Make America Great Again” “appeals to a time when white working-class men had a higher status in society than they do now, and race is in there,” says Katherine Cramer, who has spent the past nine years talking with rural Wisconsin voters for her book, “The Politics of Resentment.”
Quoted: “Airbnb is really feeling this is a huge threat to its business model,” said Andra Ghent, a professor of real estate and land use economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Most Cambodians switch between modern doctors and traditional healers quite fluidly, says Ian Baird, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches traditional healing practices in Southeast Asia.
Quoted: “There have been fractured times in America before,” said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I’ve never seen such open disdain for the media, at least in my lifetime.”
“It has had really an impact across the board in retail, both mom and pops as well as the large department stores and pretty much everything in between has been impacted by it,” said Dan Olszewski, Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.
A week after the historical presidential election last week, a Washington Post reporter and Milwaukee radio host joined two UW-Madison professors Tuesday to discuss the ramifications of Donald Trump’s shocking victory.
Quoted: “First let me say it’s very embarrassing, because I spend a lot of my time across the country and they say, aren’t you from Wisconsin?” says Gloria Ladson-Billings, a world-renown education researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
Galen McKinley, an associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison, talks about the incredibly warm weather we’ve been having.
Noted: “Cohabitation can benefit from many of the shared attributes of a marriage but it doesn’t have the social stigma of needing the financial readiness to engage in that kind of relationship,” said Fenaba Addo, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied how debt affects young adults’ life choices.
Noted: John DeLamater, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the subject of senior relationships, notes that the age group is “rapidly growing” and is expected to double over the next 15 years or so.
Noted: Howard Schweber, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist who specializes in constitutional law, said he doesn’t see any problem with the sessions. The meetings are voluntary and Tittl has taken steps to make sure his staff isn’t forced to attend, Schweber said.
Noted: In fact, the United States is filled with mythical monsters that are feared or revered by locals but remain largely unknown to most of the country. Inspired by the monster party described by Bobby Pickett in his song “Monster Mash,” cartographer Chelsea Nestel, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, mapped the monsters of the United States. She filled each state’s territory with a depiction of its most fearsome or beloved mythical beast.
Noted: “The 7th Circuit would rule on that fairly quickly, whether it be on the substance that the court decision was wrong in some way or maybe that the court didn’t have proper authority to release Brendan at this time,” Associate UW-Madison Law Prof. Adam Stevenson said.
Quoted: “The census figures are largely correct,” said Dr. Yi, a reproductive scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in an interview.
Quoted: “There are updates to the tax code all the time,” said Fabio Gaertner, an accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business who specializes in taxation.
Noted: Nardi is currently teaching graphic design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Art Department as a lecturer.
UW Health Clinical Psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain joined NBC15’s Meredith Barack to share advice on how to approach kids with serious, hard-hitting topics.
Quoted: “People between the ages of 15 and 25 tend to be high school kids or young adults in college and there is some concern about this hook-up culture. With that sort of culture there may be less openness in the relationship and willingness among the couple to discuss condoms for STD prevention,” said UW Health OBGYN, Dr. Cynthie Anderson.
Quoted: “The 7th Circuit would rule on that fairly quickly, whether it be on the substance that the court decision was wrong in some way or maybe that the court didn’t have proper authority to release Brendan at this time,” Associate UW-Madison Law Prof. Adam Stevenson said.
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden is skeptical that Trump would work arm-in-arm with congressional Republicans in the same way that Walker was able to work with his Legislative majority in Wisconsin.
Noted: Studies show mixed effects of early voting on turnout, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some find no effect, and many find negative effects. Others have found early voting increases turnout by between 2 and 4 percent.
Noted: In trying to better understand what happened in Wisconsin, and for that matter in the outcome of the election nationwide, one of the first people I wanted to speak with was Kathy Cramer. For almost a decade, the political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been inserting herself into the casual political conversations of smaller rural communities in her state—listening, asking questions, and ultimately identifying the common threads she’s been able to uncover.
Noted: “We’ve been seeing this trend of later and later cooler temperatures in southern and western Wisconsin and we’re not really sure of the cause of that,” said Jordan Gerth, associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: In the end, whatever happens in San Francisco and New York tends to diffuse across the country, but as least some regulations could end up being to Airbnb’s advantage, said Hart Posen, a professor in the business school at the University of Wisconsin.“You need a certain degree of scale to manage that kind of regulations, and that’s a barrier to new companies coming into the field. Once [Airbnb] builds the software to do it, it’s usable in San Francisco and Chicago and everywhere else” he said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Michael Wagner talks about the questions being raised about the Electoral College on Live at Four.
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer, who is studying the effect of Wisconsin’s voter ID law on election participation, called the number of provisional ballots cast evidence of “hard disenfranchisement” and “many times greater than the number of fraudulent ballots cast through voter impersonation.”
Noted: Donna Friedsam agreed. Friedsam, a policy director at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, said that prohibiting coverage denials while dropping the coverage mandate could “collapse the individual insurance market” in the United States.
Noted: “It is perceptions, not precise facts, that matter for opinions,” said Kathy Cramer, a UW-Madison political science professor who has studied Wisconsin’s “politics of resentment.”
Quoted: Kathy Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has studied rural America for years. In her book published earlier this year, “The Politics of Resentment,” she writes about the deep well of distrust that people in rural Wisconsin feel toward the major cities in the state. There is a belief that Madison and Milwaukee get all the attention and all the tax dollars. Rural voters feel left behind.
Noted: Some members of the Electoral College — the body that directly elects the president — can choose a candidate different from their state’s popular vote, but in Wisconsin, there is a state law prohibiting that, according to UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Making sense of this presidential election requires figuring out what happened in rural places across the country. This is especially true in the Upper Midwest, where there were sharp swings toward Donald Trump that helped produce surprising victories in states such as my home state of Wisconsin.
Noted: Emily Stanley, a professor in liminology and marine science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that the study is “very relevant” because it delivers the best available information about greenhouse gas emissions from dams. It shows that high methane emissions are not linked to the location or antiquity of the reservoirs, as other researchers suggest, but to the quantity of organic material.
Quoted: “The supermoon is a made-up term,” said James Lattis, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s not an astronomical term, there’s no technical definition of it.”
Katherine J. Cramer is author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she heads the Morgridge Center for Public Service. Her work focuses on the way people in the U.S. make sense of politics and their place in it. Cramer’s methodology is unusual and very direct. Instead of relying polls and survey data, she drops in on informal gatherings in rural areas—coffee shops, gas stations—and listens in on what people say to their neighbors and friends. It is a method that likely gets at psychological and social truths missed by pollsters.
Noted: The flip side to cosmopolitanism—the “rural consciousness,” in the phrasing of University of Wisconsin–Madison political scientist Katherine J. Cramer—is now both an identity and an electoral force. Trump won dominant support in rural America. He outran Romney by more than 40 percent in large swaths of the Midwest. His rural success was not confined to the Rust Belt.
Quoted: Almost everything a president does by executive order can be undone by a subsequent executive order,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wrote “With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power.”
Quoted: “Voters see the outcome and think, ‘My vote won’t matter,’” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And even if the voter wants his vote to count, it’s still a hassle. You have to take another step that other voters don’t have to.”
But if you’re wondering about the widening fissure between red and blue America, why politics these days have become so fraught and so emotional, Kathy Cramer is one of the best people to ask. For the better part of the past decade, the political science professor has been crisscrossing Wisconsin trying to get inside the minds of rural voters.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin political scientist Katherine J. Cramer, the author of “The Politics of Resentment,” described what this looked like during years of field research in Wisconsin in an insightful interview with Jeff Guo at The Washington Post. The people she met across a state that Mrs. Clinton ultimately lost felt deeply disrespected (and suspicious of a white-collar academic from uber-blue Madison). “They would say, ‘The real kicker is that people in the city don’t understand us,’ ” Ms. Cramer said. “ ‘They don’t understand what rural life is like, what’s important to us and what challenges that we’re facing. They think we’re a bunch of redneck racists.’ ”
Noted: UW-Madison professors Barry Burden, Mike Wagner weigh in.
Noted: Neil Heinenis joined by Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Rev. Alex Gee, a pastor at Madison’s Fountain of Life Covenant Church and founder of the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership and a part of the Justified Anger Coalition.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, a professor in the business school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is not quite so sanguine about Obamacare’s near-term future. “Many insurers had put provisions into their contracts for offering ACA-exchange plans that they could exit the market during the plan year if the federal government stops payments for ’cost-sharing reductions,’” he said. “Because President Trump will have the authority through executive action to end those payments, he could cause an abrupt pullout and cancellation of ACA policies even in January next year. In light of that, what I would say is that there is some real risk of those who buy ACA plans of not being able to get through 2017 without a serious disruption.”
Quoted: “It’s been a long brutal two years, excruciating,” UW-Madison communications expert Mike Flaherty said.Flaherty said the best thing to do to heal those post-election wounds is to stop venting on social media and unplug a bit.
Quoted: “We have never had polls off this substantially across the board,” says UW-Madison Police Science Department Chairman David Canon.
Noted: UW-Madison Political Science Department Chairman David Canon says Trump greatly expanded margins in counties republican candidate Mitt Romney won in 2012, and also flipped a chunk of rural counties from the democratic column in 2012, to his column by sizable amounts.
Quoted: “Trump was an appealing candidate for people who were feeling like rural Wisconsin always gets a raw deal, and people in rural Wisconsin don’t get their fair share, and people in cities don’t respect them and nobody listens to them or has a clue what is going on there,” said Kathy Cramer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author of a book about politics and rural Wisconsin.
Noted: “It is quite difficult to discern what the election results will be from early voting numbers,” University of Wisconsin early voting expert Barry Burden said. “The patterns do not tell a coherent national story. … Ballots are coming in at different rates for the parties in each state. The messages appear to differ from one state to the next.”
Noted: UW-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner calls Johnson’s win a true upset.
Noted: In 2007, Katherine Cramer began visiting Wisconsin’s small towns and listening to the conversations people were having. Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the nation’s changing demographics and a globalized, more high-tech economy have left many in mostly white, small towns feeling left out. That’s how Wisconsin and other Midwestern states that were projected to be part of Clinton’s firewall flipped to Republican.
Quoted: “Wow,” said political scientist Kathy Cramer, who studies rural communities, when she heard that number. No GOP nominee had won the rural vote in Wisconsin by more than 10 points in recent decades. Democrat Obama won them by 8 in 2008.
Noted: With a Republican majority in the United States Congress, subsidies and other ACA funding could be withheld, said Donna Friedsam, University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute health policy director.
Quoted: Opponents, however, say these agreements are primarily ways for companies to protect themselves from the competition for workers. Keeping employees from changing jobs or launching their own ventures means companies can pay lower wages, said Martin Ganco, a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor who specializes in noncompete contracts.
Noted: UW Journalism professor Mike Wagner appeared on 27 News at 5, while UW Political Science chair Dr. David Canon appeared on 27 News at 6. You can watch both interviews in the videos in this web story.
