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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

No need to explain

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In the last few months, there have been many attempts to explain why the public is so discontented.   Nicholas Eberstadt says the discontent...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Looking backward

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Sunday was the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 , which provided the basis for sending people of Japanese ancestry (and some of Ger...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Immigration issue or immigration issues?

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Thomas Edsall has a piece called "The Democrats' Immigration Problem. "  In the first sentence, he asks "why is immigrati...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Forgotten but not gone: the sequel

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A few weeks ago, I showed the estimated effect of college education on Democratic vs. Republican voting in presidential elections from 1936...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Populism

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Everyone agrees that Donald Trump is a populist, but there's no consensus on what that means.  In a recent column, T homas Edsall treats...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Learning from Trump

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It's often said that Donald Trump did well among less educated voters because he seemed to care about them.  As Arthur Brooks put it , ...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Forgotten but not gone, part 2

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Here is the estimated effect of college education on the chance of voting Democratic vs. Republican in presidential elections, 1936-2012. ...
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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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