by jpitney | Dec 30, 2021 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Victoria Parker at The Atlantic Some caveats: Our research, which is available as a preprint, is under review and subject to change. We drew our large samples of respondents from online survey platforms, not from nationally representative polling. We recognize that...
by jpitney | Dec 14, 2021 | Higher Education, Public Opinion, Republican, Youth
Jeremi Suri and Samuel J. Abrams at Politico: The Republican Party has dug itself a hole with regard to young, educated voters. Although Americans under 30 are less likely to vote than their older counterparts, they are a rapidly growing proportion of the electorate....
by jpitney | Nov 23, 2021 | Deliberation, Public Opinion
Ted Van Green at Pew: The share of Americans who say having political conversations with those they disagree with is “stressful and frustrating” has increased in recent years. Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (59%) say they find these conversations stressful, up from 50%...
by jpitney | Nov 18, 2021 | civic virtue, Public Opinion
Monmouth University: Three in ten Americans now believe the nation’s system is fundamentally unsound, according to the Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll. This number has increased from prior polls while one-third of the public continues to believe voter fraud...
by jpitney | Oct 29, 2021 | Democracy, Public Opinion
Richard Wike and colleagues report on a survey of 17 advanced economies surveyed this spring by Pew Research Center: A median of 57% across 17 publics say they are satisfied with the way their democracy is working. But while views of democracy are relatively positive...
by jpitney | Oct 3, 2021 | Biden, Polarization, Public Opinion
From the UVA Center for Politics: The University of Virginia Center for Politics has partnered with Project Home Fire, a new initiative dedicated to finding common ground in American politics, on an innovative new data analytics and polling project to explore the...
