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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Corruption

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As I mentioned in a post a couple of years ago, I have looked for data on perceived corruption in the different states of the US, but have ...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Libertarian Populism?

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In 1986, an NBC.News/Wall St. Journal poll asked "Do you think Congress should pass legislation limiting the amount of interest credit ...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Benign neglect?

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Between 1976 and 1978, a question whether "the government has paid too much attention to the problems of blacks and other minorities...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

Not getting it

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Do whites think they they face more discrimination than blacks do, as Nicholas Kristof says ?  Since the late 1970s, there have been a numb...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

More things I've written about before

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In June, I wrote about the minimum wage , and mentioned that I'd found only one survey that offered people the option of saying it shoul...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Attention must be paid

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A few days ago, the Public Editor of the New York Times reported on a study done by Jack Fischer, a student at Binghamton University.  The ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

I said it before

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A little over a year ago, I had a post  inspired by a New York Times story that referred to some research sponsored by Dove finding that on...
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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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