by jpitney | Jan 20, 2020 | Business, Ethics, International Relations, Public Opinion
A release from Edelman: The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that despite a strong global economy and near full employment, a majority of respondents in every developed market do not believe they will be better off in five years’ time, and 56 percent believe that...
by jpitney | Dec 28, 2019 | Journalism, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
Zacc Ritter at Gallup: The degree that the public trusts journalists varies widely across 144 countries and territories included in the 2018 Wellcome Global Monitor study. Worldwide, the percentage who express at least some trust in journalists ranges from a low of...
by jpitney | Dec 4, 2019 | Civility, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
A June report from Weber Shandwick: The latest installment of Civility in America, an annual poll conducted by Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate, in partnership with KRC Research, once again finds that the majority of Americans perceive incivility to be a problem in our...
by jpitney | Nov 14, 2019 | Civility, Polarization, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
Katie Moritz at Rewire: “We have all backed into our political corners and filter every conversation though the bubble of our own political views,” said Andrew Selepak, a media professor and director of the graduate program in social media at the University of...
by jpitney | Oct 29, 2019 | Civility, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
From the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service: A majority of Americans believe political, racial, and class divisions are getting worse, according to the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service Battleground Civility Poll, the second...
by jpitney | Oct 27, 2019 | Deliberation, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
James Fishkin and Larry Diamond at NY Times: What if we had civil and evidence-based dialogue across our great divides of party, ideology and identity? The project America in One Room was a national experiment to find out. Over a long weekend in September, we had a...
