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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Overlooking the obvious

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Since the midterm elections, there have been a number of stories about "What 'big thing' would reinvigorate the Democratic Part...
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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Self-interest?

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A recent   piece in the New York Times Jason Weeden and Robert Kuzban  tells us that self-interest influences political views.  Along with s...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Post-election coverage

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After the election, Justin Wolfers wrote a column saying that questions about who people expected to win were better predictors of election...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

That man in Hartford

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I get most of my election coverage from the NY Times.  It occurred to me the other day that I hadn't read much about the race for Connec...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Do you believe?

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Since 1985, a number of surveys (first by the Times-Mirror Corporation and later by Pew) have asked "How would you rate the believabili...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Missing Right-of-Center Museum Goers

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Ross Douthat had a post on " The Missing Right-of-center Media " in which he noted that "outlets that mix political and cultu...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Earthquakes and inflation

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In November 2010, an open letter to Ben Bernanke warned that quantitative easing would "risk currency debasement and inflation." ...
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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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