CSFE Issue Briefs

Professor Sean Mulholland became the CSFE Director in July 2022.
Getting Back to “Normal” vs. Posttraumatic Growth: Ways for Individuals, Communities, and Societies to Grow in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Getting Back to “Normal” vs. Posttraumatic Growth: Ways for Individuals, Communities, and Societies to Grow in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Getting Back to “Normal” vs. Posttraumatic Growth: Ways for Individuals, Communities, and Societies to Grow in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Chelsea Sokolow and Emma Miller, MSW, LCSW Western Carolina UniversityClick the Button Below to Download a PDF Version of this Issue BriefExecutive...

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Democracy in Decline?

Democracy in Decline?

Democracy in Decline?   Loren E. Lomasky University of VirginiaClick the Button Below to Download a PDF Version of this Issue BriefExecutive Summary How resilient are the democratic institutions that protect American representative government? This issue brief follows the tradition of thought...

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About the Issue Briefs

The goal of CSFE Issue Briefs is to provide an accessible educational resource on important issues and fundamental concepts. CSFE Issue Briefs are well-grounded in sound scholarship, yet written in plain language for everyday readers. Hence the tagline: “Hard Research, Easy Reading.” CSFE distributes the series of issue briefs by email, social media, and its website.

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This allows for the work itself, or adaptive or derivative works, to be republished by anyone, so long as CSFE is given an attribution and the republishing is for non-commercial uses. Issue Brief authors have attested that this material has not been previously published and does not qualify as self-plagiarism. Direct intellectual property inquiries to csfe@wcu.edu.