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Friday, June 27, 2025

College electors, part 3

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 I had two previous posts on voting preferences among college students in the 1940s-70s.  This post will look at faculty at two elite univer...
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Interruption

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My last two posts were on polls of college student voting from the 1940s-70s.  I intended my next post to be on polls of faculty voting, but...
Monday, June 9, 2025

College electors, part 2

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 My last post said that there were large moves towards the Democrats at several elite universities between 1960 and 1964.  According to the ...
Friday, June 6, 2025

College electors

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In a review of a biography of William F. Buckley, Louis Menand wrote: " In 1948, eighty-eight per cent [of Yale students] supported Tho...
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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Transformed by Trump?

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 The New York Times recently had an analysis of changes in county-level voting between 2012 and 2024.  As they summarized it, Trump's v...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Mood Indigo, part 2

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In December, I had a post criticizing the idea t hat school closures during the Covid years were imposed by "elites." I observed t...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Separate ways, part 2

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 A few weeks ago, I had a post about  liberal and conservative confidence in medicine, science, and education.  There was a gradual divergen...
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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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