by jpitney | Jul 29, 2022 | Civility, Public Opinion
From the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service With just months to go until the fall’s midterm elections, voters feel strongly that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Fueled by self-segregation into like minded communities, Americans...
by jpitney | Jul 28, 2022 | Business, China, Elections, Public Opinion
Caitlin Oprysko at Politico on Bruce Mehlman (P’21 P’25): MEHLMAN’S LATEST: Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas’ Bruce Mehlman is out with his latest slide deck, which zeroes in backlash threatening to upend four different trends in politics and policy....
by jpitney | Jul 23, 2022 | Public Administration, Public Opinion, Public Service
Paul Light at Brookings: The percentage of Americans who said they would want a son or daughter to pursue a career in government dropped from 56% in 2010 to just 39% in April 2022 as the number of respondents who did not answer the question increased. Republicans and...
by jpitney | Jul 11, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Deliberation, Public Opinion
Carl Hulse at The New York Times: “There is strong evidence that [lawmakers] actually don’t even know the views of their constituents,” said Steven Kull, a psychologist who heads the Program for Public Consultation at the University of Maryland’s School of Public...
by jpitney | Jul 2, 2022 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Mike Allen at Axios: The acrid state of politics is seeping into Americans’ relationships and behavior, according to a poll out today from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP), headed by David Axelrod. Driving the...
by jpitney | Jun 16, 2022 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Andrew Romano at Yahoo: A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that most Democrats (55%) and Republicans (53%) now believe it is “likely” that America will “cease to be a democracy in the future” — a stunning expression of bipartisan despair about the direction of the...
