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Friday, November 30, 2012

Who are the rich?

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A 1997 survey by Princeton Survey Research Associates asked "Which one of the following areas of the economy do you think accounts for...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Capitalism and Obama

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The survey I mentioned in my last post also asked whether people approved of the job Barack Obama was doing as president.  If you regress ap...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Education and the isms

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The Pew survey mentioned in my last post asked people for their reactions to six terms:  socialism, progressive, liberartian, capitalism, li...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Socialist Youth

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John Hinderaker, a conservative blogger, says "to me, the most telling incident of the campaign season was a poll that found that amo...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

The March Into Socialism

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Is support for socialism on the rise in America?  Looking at the outcome of the election, some  conservatives say yes (and aren't happy ...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Battleground states

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A New York Times story yesterday pointed out that presidential candidates have appeared in only ten states since the conventions, while Joh...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

"President Obama is in electoral trouble"

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In August, I saw a reference to an election forecasting model by Michael Berry and Kenneth Bickers (University of Colorado) that predicted a...
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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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