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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Populism of the past

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Today, "populism" is usually a negative term, basically meaning bombastic, authoritarian, and incompetent ( this article is an ex...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Family or skills?

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I've written about public opinion on several aspects of immigration, but there is one that I haven't considered:  whether decisions ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

"People love me. . . . Everybody loves me"

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I've had several posts questioning the claim Donald Trump had a strong connection to the public ( this one, for example ).  But what if ...
Thursday, January 4, 2018

What have reformicons learned?

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Ross Douthat has a column called "What has Mitt Romney learned? "  The idea is that Romney's opposition to Trump is praisewort...
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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Still searching

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The AP recently had a story in which they went to "the heart of Trump country," specifically Sandy Hook, Kentucky, "isolated...
Monday, December 25, 2017

Christmas bonus

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My last post mentioned Trump's approval ratings among college graduates, but didn't show them.  Here they are, with a comparison to ...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Education and presidential approval

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During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump promised a large infrastructure program, major restrictions on international trade, and eliminating t...
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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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