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Thursday, August 30, 2012

A working-class voter is something to be

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There has been a lot of talk about "white working-class voters" in this election season.  I did a Google News search for that phra...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

More Stimulus

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In my last post, I found no relation between spending growth (2007-9) and economic growth (2009-11) using data from the International Moneta...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Stimulus

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Last week, Arthur Laffer published a piece in the Wall Street Journal in which he presented data purporting to show that among industrializ...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Liberals and Conservatives at Thanksgiving

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There is a lot of discussion of psychological and/or lifestyle differences between liberals and conservatives.  The differences aren't a...
Monday, July 30, 2012

More on Gun Control

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In the NY Times, Ross Douthat links to some Gallup data showing a decline in support for gun control since 1990, and offers an interesting...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Declining Support for Gun Control?

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The other day I heard something on NPR saying that, by one measure, support for gun control had declined from over 80% (I believe they said ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Candidates' Tax Returns

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Mitt Romney's unwillingness to release more than two years of tax returns is currently getting a lot of attention in the media.   The Ro...
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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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