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Thursday, March 30, 2017

The beginning of ideology

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I have had several posts ( this is the latest ) trying to explain why American conservatism became ideological, but wasn't satisfied wit...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Don't let go

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I did some further investigation into the relationship between interest in politics and happines s and found that the GSS included another q...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Depressed by politics?

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Arthur Brooks reports that people who are more interested in politics are less happy:  "I analyzed the 2014 data from the General Socia...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

A tale of two parties

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A couple of weeks ago, I had a post about perceptions of economic condition s.  Contrary to what is often said, they are not all that negati...
Friday, March 3, 2017

More about immigration

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In November, I had a post about change in opinions on whether immigration should be reduced, stay the same, or increased.  A few weeks ago,...
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...
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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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