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Brief explanations introduce each rulebook.","pacing":"Three resumable acts · pilot timing pending","output":"Institutional comparison and research brief","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/power-circuit/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/power-circuit","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/power-circuit/cover.webp","limitations":"Matched fictional rulebooks simplify real systems. Country dossiers show variation within each system. Timing and learning effects need classroom piloting."},{"title":"The Shared Country","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/the-shared-country","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Take the national and regional governments’ perspectives as a flood approaches, clinic budgets diverge and a license is refused. Choose how power is shared, then live with the rules you set.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Institutions","Nation & belonging","State & power"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish decentralization from constitutionally protected authority.","Explain fiscal equalization and the position of minorities within regions.","Trace how an earlier allocation of authority shapes a later conflict."],"preparation":"No advance reading. Read each government’s priorities and construct plausible positions on your own.","pacing":"Self-paced solo edition · timing not yet measured","output":"Constitutional choices, government positions and an individual explanation","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/the-shared-country/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/the-shared-country","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/the-shared-country/cover.webp","limitations":"Aven is fictional. You construct the government positions yourself; there are no live peers or automated negotiating agents. The solo edition illustrates authority and tradeoffs, not real bargaining behavior. Timing has not yet been measured."},{"title":"Everyone Says Democracy","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/everyone-says-democracy","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Read the same survey answer through very different political lives. Decide what counts as democratic support, design a better measure and see which claims your evidence can carry.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Democracy","Evidence & inquiry"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Separate support for a word from support for particular democratic practices.","Evaluate the relationship between a concept and its indicators.","Revise an explanation when new comparisons challenge it."],"preparation":"Self-contained introduction. Original research is available for extension.","pacing":"Self-paced inquiry · timing not yet measured","output":"Research brief, measurement choices and revisions","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/everyone-says-democracy/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/everyone-says-democracy","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/everyone-says-democracy/cover-v4.webp","limitations":"Simulation cases and controlled comparisons support reasoning practice. They are not representative estimates of public opinion."},{"title":"The Overloaded State","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/overloaded-state","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Follow a public promise into a jammed bureaucracy. Find the bottleneck, weigh expertise against political control and propose a reform you can actually test.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","State & power","Evidence & inquiry"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish a policy decision from implementation capacity.","Compare administrative burden, resources, expertise and control.","Specify how evidence could evaluate a proposed reform."],"preparation":"Self-contained introduction; no advance reading required.","pacing":"Self-paced inquiry · timing not yet measured","output":"Capacity diagnosis and reform/evaluation brief","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/overloaded-state/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/overloaded-state","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/overloaded-state/cover-v4.webp","limitations":"A proposed reform is a hypothesis. Do not treat a programmed outcome as a measured real-world reform effect."},{"title":"Reply Across","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/reply-across","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Letters arrive from Canada in 1992 and India in 1956. Recommend how to share power, predict what follows and face an objection. Only then open the historical record.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Nation & belonging","Institutions","Evidence & inquiry"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Compare institutional responses to national and linguistic diversity.","Identify minorities within proposed territorial units.","Distinguish a defensible prediction from hindsight."],"preparation":"Best after a basic introduction to nationalism.","pacing":"45–60 min · optional +10 min","output":"Addressed reply with predictions and revisions","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/reply-across/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/reply-across","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/reply-across/cover.webp","limitations":"Historical cases are selected for comparison, not equivalent experiments. The optional Spain postscript adds a further comparison."},{"title":"Manytide","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/manytide","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Follow one household across records, schools and borders. Arrange authority and resources, then discover who your solution still leaves out. A neat map is only the beginning.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Nation & belonging","Institutions","State & power"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Explain how public arrangements shape practical belonging.","Distinguish jurisdiction from the people and obligations a service must reach.","Connect territorial choices to authority and resources."],"preparation":"No prior theory knowledge needed. A useful opening before a lecture.","pacing":"45–60 min · optional +10 min","output":"Field journal with evidence and revised explanations","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/manytide/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/manytide","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/manytide/cover.webp","limitations":"Manytide is fictional. Choices illustrate institutional questions rather than predict a real country’s outcomes."},{"title":"Name the Problem","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/name-the-problem","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Take a seat in a citizens’ assembly. Turn a pattern into a public argument, defend your benchmark and answer a challenge. Leave with a poster and the reasoning behind it.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Democracy","Evidence & inquiry"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish an observed pattern from a political interpretation.","Make a democratic benchmark and unit of comparison explicit.","Respond to a challenge without concealing revision."],"preparation":"Choose the comparative case for this course. Core or Full guidance is available.","pacing":"About 50 min · allow time for reflection","output":"Public poster plus separate reasoning/revision report","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/name-the-problem/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/name-the-problem","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/name-the-problem/cover.webp","limitations":"Reasonable interpretations can differ. Completion and a polished poster do not establish the quality of the argument."},{"title":"A Door That Says Open","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/door-that-says-open","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"A worker tries to vote. A volunteer tries to reach voters. Residents try to get an answer. Find where access breaks down, defend your account at a hearing and replay one changed rule.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Democracy","State & power"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish formal rights from usable political access.","Connect an institutional rule to an observed barrier.","Test a hypothesis and transfer the reasoning to a new case."],"preparation":"No specialist knowledge required. Read the case records as you go.","pacing":"About 55 min of active work","output":"Evidence, hypothesis and revision report","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/door-that-says-open/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/door-that-says-open","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/door-that-says-open/cover-v4.webp","limitations":"Fictional cases isolate selected institutional problems. A changed-rule replay does not establish a general empirical effect."},{"title":"Greenovia: The Belonging Test","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/greenovia","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Design a country’s promise, then put it through citizenship, language, schools, religion and voting disputes. A family you did not plan for is about to test your principles.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Nation & belonging","Democracy"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Explain who a citizenship rule includes, excludes or burdens.","Distinguish equal wording from usable rights.","Revise a general principle in response to a new case."],"preparation":"Self-contained; suitable for a take-home synthesis. Allow time for explanation.","pacing":"85–110 min · take-home estimate","output":"Charter, council decisions and comparative report","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/greenovia/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/greenovia","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/greenovia/cover-v4.webp","limitations":"Greenovia is fictional. The time is an estimate and can vary substantially with the depth of written work."},{"title":"The Square","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/the-square","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"You are one citizen among twenty. Predict what the others will do, decide whether to act and test what changes when incentives and communication shift. Shared interests are only the beginning.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Collective action","Evidence & inquiry"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Explain pivotality and the difference between individual and collective incentives.","Compare communication, coordination and selective incentives.","Separate model behavior from empirical prediction."],"preparation":"No advance reading. You play one citizen; the other nineteen are programmed.","pacing":"45–55 min · with optional discussion","output":"Forecasts, choices and reasoning record","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/the-square/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/the-square","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/the-square/cover-v4.webp","limitations":"The other nineteen citizens are programmed. Controlled rehearsals illustrate mechanisms; they do not forecast real political behavior."},{"title":"Hold the Headline","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/hold-the-headline","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"An unfinished bridge. A confident public claim. Two reporting slots. Choose what to investigate, challenge the rival explanations and decide what your newsroom can responsibly publish.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","Evidence & inquiry","State & power"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish a public claim from the evidence supporting it.","Choose records that separate rival explanations.","State what remains unknown after an investigation."],"preparation":"No advance reading required. All case records are in the activity.","pacing":"45–55 min · planning estimate","output":"Evidence and revision report","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/hold-the-headline/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/hold-the-headline","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/hold-the-headline/cover-v4.webp","limitations":"Reporting choices occur in a designed fictional record. An unresolved question is a legitimate outcome."},{"title":"Protection, Inc.: The Price of Power","url":"https://possiblestates.com/simulations/protection-inc","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States","description":"Bargain for a community, then face a replacement leader. Compare who pays, who enforces and which promises survive. Find the point where a personal deal becomes an institution.","subjects":["Political science","Comparative politics","State & power","Institutions"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish personal bargains from continuing institutional arrangements.","Explain extraction, enforcement and continuity.","Separate compliance or payment from evidence of legitimacy."],"preparation":"No advance preparation. Work through the offers and continuing records.","pacing":"45–55 min · planning estimate","output":"Bargaining, institutional comparison and explanation report","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and embedding of the hosted resource; other software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are permanently free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/play/protection-inc/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://possiblestates.com/teaching/protection-inc","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"Independent accessibility certification not established; see accessibility statement","accessibilityURL":"https://possiblestates.com/accessibility","image":"https://possiblestates.com/play/protection-inc/cover-v4.webp","limitations":"The designed cases isolate institutional features. Payment alone cannot establish consent or legitimacy."}],"frontiers":[{"title":"The Democracy Alarm","url":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/democracy-alarm","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States / Frontiers","materialType":"Research simulation","cost":"Free","costPolicy":"Permanently free","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/play/democracy-alarm/index.html","requiresStudentAccount":false,"sourceCodeAvailable":false,"rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","license":"Permanently free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","learningObjectives":["Reconstruct the strongest entrenchment argument and a specific conceptual or empirical response, using actual comparisons, outcomes, periods and boundaries from both articles.","Build an institutional mechanism with actors, authority, decisions and political opportunities; generate a rival and a discriminating observation without inventing motives or an election result.","Define a democratic condition, justify three indicators and compare a compensatory rule with a necessary-condition rule on a difficult case.","Read exact fictional graphs and tables, calculate both means with units, defend the question a summary answers and identify a protection its national average conceals.","Apply and revise the account in an unfamiliar dossier after committing initial mechanism, rival and prediction notes; distinguish formal legal power from implementation."],"preparation":"Built-in explanations introduce the studies. For a seminar, use the reading companion before discussion. Familiarity with basic concepts helps; the readings make the research question explicit.","pacing":"Self-contained inquiry for introductory students · No advance reading required · Work in class or across sessions; student completion time has not yet been measured.","description":"Bellara's election dashboard and democracy report tell different stories. As an independent analyst, audit the fictional documents before deciding what the public should hear. Read a real scholarly dispute about democratic backsliding, then trace authority, decisions and access through dated records. Build a transparent measurement charter with three indicators and two different rules for combining them. Compare country and population weighting, choose a verification project under a staff-hour limit, and test your rule in an unfamiliar municipal dossier. The challenge is to defend a specific warning with evidence, keep unknowns visible and explain which observation could make you revise it."},{"title":"The Civic Machine","url":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/civic-machine","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States / Frontiers","materialType":"Research simulation","cost":"Free","costPolicy":"Permanently free","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/play/civic-machine/index.html","requiresStudentAccount":false,"sourceCodeAvailable":false,"rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","license":"Permanently free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","learningObjectives":["Distinguish mediation, assigned advocacy, and changes in participation or measurement without treating all view changes as the same process.","Explain the difference between summary endorsement, policy support, and observed political behavior.","Defend a conditional finding, address a challenge, and propose a comparison that could change it.","Read the fictional graph and exact table, calculate with the stated units and base, distinguish a numerical observation from a political inference, and defend it in a human-reviewed explanation.","Reconcile endorsement optimization, majority-aligned opinion movement and minority textual contribution without equating them with equal political influence.","Defend agenda rights, an access safeguard, a complaint route and an accountable binding decision under stated costs and timing.","Generate a mechanism and credible same-step rival for an unfamiliar institution, predict differentiating evidence, then revise or defend using a late record."],"preparation":"Built-in explanations introduce the studies. For a seminar, use the reading companion before discussion. Familiarity with basic concepts helps; the readings make the research question explicit.","pacing":"Self-contained inquiry for introductory students · No advance reading required · Work in class or across sessions; student completion time has not yet been measured.","description":"Larkhaven needs a transit decision. Residents submit priorities, an AI produces a shared statement, and the council must decide what that statement authorizes. As an independent reviewer, follow a fictional consultation through dated documents, competing explanations and exact response counts. Two real studies examine AI mediation and persuasion, helping you ask what was tested and which institutional claims remain open. Construct possible response tables, defend a route and process under a budget and access rule, then investigate a different institution. Agreement is the beginning of your inquiry. Your task is to make a precise finding and explain what could change it."},{"title":"The Persuasion Hearing","url":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/persuasion-hearing","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States / Frontiers","materialType":"Research simulation","cost":"Free","costPolicy":"Permanently free","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/play/persuasion-hearing/index.html","requiresStudentAccount":false,"sourceCodeAvailable":false,"rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","license":"Permanently free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","learningObjectives":["Reconstruct two source-specific interventions and outcomes; explain why comparing them changes an inference rather than subtracting incompatible units.","Build a linked political communication process and a rival at one link; audit factual statements without confusing attribution, support, contradiction, missing evidence and values.","Defend a feasible licensing condition using public authority, sponsor incentives, alternatives, independent challenge, a legitimate burden and a switch pattern.","Interpret exact interval contrasts and all-assigned outcomes; distinguish selected-user movement, knowledge, attitudes and unmeasured behavior.","Apply the reasoning independently to a fresh institution, then defend or revise after a late record without losing the initial account."],"preparation":"Built-in explanations introduce the studies. For a seminar, use the reading companion before discussion. Familiarity with basic concepts helps; the readings make the research question explicit.","pacing":"Self-contained inquiry for introductory students · No advance reading required · Work in class or across sessions; student completion time has not yet been measured.","description":"A supplier offers a chatbot for a public transit consultation, backed by a certificate showing that stored demographic profiles are disconnected. As an adviser to Bridgehaven’s Civic Technology Commission, you must decide what evidence a license needs. Read two recent AI-persuasion studies, check six sentences against official notices, reconstruct a proposed causal process and defend an enforceable rule within a limited audit budget. Then apply your reasoning to a fresh public-service case. Keep experimental comparisons, factual reliability, citizen access and political judgment distinct while making them inform one decision. Bridgehaven and its local records are fictional."},{"title":"Major Decisions","url":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/major-decisions","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Possible States / Frontiers","materialType":"Research simulation","cost":"Free","costPolicy":"Permanently free","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/play/major-decisions/index.html","requiresStudentAccount":false,"sourceCodeAvailable":false,"rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","license":"Permanently free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","learningObjectives":["Explain how earlier selection, learning during study, and later work could each contribute to a political difference.","Compare what the studies measure and what their research designs let us infer about that difference.","Defend a finding with evidence and propose a comparison that would distinguish it from a competing explanation."],"preparation":"Built-in explanations introduce the studies. For a seminar, use the reading companion before discussion. Familiarity with basic concepts helps; the readings make the research question explicit.","pacing":"A research investigation with optional extensions. Plan play, reading and a separate debrief; pilot the full timing.","description":"A university is accused of manufacturing voters. Some political differences began before enrollment; others developed around classes, new friends, and a housing crisis. Choose an explanation, predict what evidence could distinguish it, then inspect a record and face a challenge to its timing. Two articles help distinguish the subject studied, college attendance, policy views, and political engagement. Play For class with a saved research brief or For fun with open browsing. An optional frontier changes the party choices while keeping preferences fixed: could a different ballot produce a different vote without changing anyone’s beliefs?"}],"readingPartners":[{"title":"Who Gets to Be We?","url":"https://possiblestates.com/frontiers/nationalism-exhibit","externalProvider":"Gemini","materialType":"Reading partner","requiresProviderAccount":true,"providerLimitsApply":true,"rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse","description":"Who Gets to Be We? — The Nationalism Exhibit\r\n\r\nWhat makes a nation—and who gets left out? Help repair an unfinished museum exhibit using Andreas Wimmer’s “Why Nationalism Works.” Choose evidence, compare cases, and explore how nationalism can support solidarity and equality while also producing exclusion and violence. 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