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Showing posts with label Public Opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Opinion. Show all posts
Thursday, November 14, 2024

From Lawfare: Who Would Support Deploying the Military to Domestic Protests?

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Timely - Click here for the article . If the president deploys the military for domestic policing, would public and military officers go alo...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

How party identification influences opinion formation

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Study the chart below. It shows facts associated with crime - murder rates in large cities - and data showing how people perceive those citi...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

For our look at public opinion formation

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Democrats and Republicans don't seem to live in the same world

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At least they don't see things the same way. Here is an example:  Why?  - Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United ...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

From the Pew Research Center: Americans divided in views of use of torture in U.S. anti-terror efforts

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An early look at public opinion - as well as polarization and ideology. - Click here for the article . As Donald Trump’s administration re...
Monday, January 23, 2017

From the Pew Research Center: On Eve of Inauguration, Americans Expect Nation’s Deep Political Divisions to Persist

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Polarization shows little signs of abating - Click here for the study . The current mood stands in stark contrast to January 2009, before ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The latest from the Gallup Poll

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Two recent polls: - U.S. Public Opinion on Four Key State Ballot Measures . In addition to electing Donald Trump as the 45th U.S. presiden...

From the Harvard Business Review: What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Clas

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Since last week's election, renewed attention has been paid to this group. - Click here for the article . . . . the white working cla...
Monday, November 14, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: A Divided and Pessimistic Electorate

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More evidence that Trump and Clinton supporters live in two different worlds, and see the problems facing the nation in two different ways. ...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

From the Gallup Vault: 60 Years Ago, the End of "Separate but Equal"

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For our look at polling, public opinion and civil rights. - Click here for the article . On Nov. 13, 1956, two years after the Supreme Cou...
Monday, October 24, 2016

From the Gallup Vault (1941): Lining Up Against Poll Taxes

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Southerns states with poll taxes wanted to keep them. - Click here for the article . In February 1941, Gallup found more than six in 10 Am...
Monday, October 17, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: In Presidential Contest, Voters Say ‘Basic Facts,’ Not Just Policies, Are in Dispute

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More evidence of political polarization - as well as selection bias. - Click here for the article . Some graphics pulled from the article:
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: The Racial Confidence Gap in Police Performance - Blacks, whites also have dramatically different views on causes of fatal encounters between blacks and police

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For our look at public opinion, especially group differences. - Click here for the article . The deep racial tensions seen in many a...
Friday, September 30, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: Where the Public Stands on Religious Liberty vs. Nondiscrimination - Two-thirds say employers should provide birth control in insurance plans, but public is split over same-sex wedding services and use of public bathrooms by transgender people

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The battle between the equal protection and free exercise clauses continues to rage. - Click here for the article . The U.S. public expres...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

From the New York Times: Will the Left Survive the Millennials?

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An opinion piece. For our look at ideology, free speech, and public opinion. - Click here for the article . When I was growing up in the ’...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Group differences in public opinion

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For discussion in class: - Race and Ethnicity . - Gender Gap . - Hispanic Trends . - Generations . And for a look at the differences in all ...

From the Gallup Poll: Presidential Candidates and the Challenge of Fixing the Government

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And another from Gallup - this involves attitudes about the government, but it points out some conflicting info based on how questions are a...

From the Gallup Poll: Party Groups Agree on Importance of Big Election Issues

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This ties together a variety of class topic, including public opinion, parties, and the current campaign. - Click here for the stor y, and t...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: Budget Deficit Slips as Public Priority

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For out look at public policy in 2305. - Click here for it . This chart will be worth pouring over. Differences among age groups - useful fo...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Chart of the Day

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From the Rand Corporation. - Click here for the source .