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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Good and bad influences

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In a recent post, I discussed a Pew survey of eight nations in 1994 that asked whether various things were good or bad influences "on t...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

What's a Democrat worth?

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When straightening up my office at the end of the semester, I ran across a paper by Alan Blinder and Mark Watson that came out this summer....
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Police, blacks and whites, 1981-2000

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A few days ago, I saw an article  that referred to a survey question on "confidence in police officers in your community to treat black...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Unions and Management

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When looking for questions about unions, I saw one from a 1994 Pew survey:  are they "having mainly a good influence on the way thing...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Overlooking the obvious-2

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The title for my last post was especially appropriate, since I overlooked the obvious question about the popularity of unions.  As Andrew Ge...
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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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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