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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Now for some speculation

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According to exit polls , Donald Trump got 67% of the vote among whites without a college degree in 2016, which may be the best-ever perfor...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

There must have been a reason

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My last post was one of several arguing that people in general, and less educated people in particular, didn't see Donald Trump as all t...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Who Cared?

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A few months ago, I wrote about the idea that Donald Trump appealed to less educated voters because he seemed to care about them.  I pointe...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Cost disease or employment disease?

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In his speech announcing that he's pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump once again displayed his preoccupatio...
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Sunday, May 28, 2017

The ideal president

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The usual explanation of why Donald Trump did well among less educated ("working class") white voters was that they are profoundly...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

The owl of Minerva, part 2

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One of the striking things about the 2016 election was that the gap between more and less educated voters became much bigger .  Compared to ...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

That was some uptick

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I wasn't going to post again this soon, but this morning I read an interview with Heather Ann Thompson , a professor at the University o...
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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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