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Friday, April 27, 2018

Them vs. us

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In 2013, the ISSP survey on National Identity asked people how they felt about the statement:  "International organizations are taking ...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Confidence in Government, 1952-2016

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This was the post I was going to do last week--an update of a overall measure of confidence in government that I wrote about in 2013 .  I f...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

All the lonely people

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A couple of days ago, David Brooks had a column in which he wrote " In the 1980s, 20 percent of Americans said they were often lonely. ...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Is 80% a lot?

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I was going to post on another subject, but things turned out to be more complicated than I thought, so here is a stopgap.  The Washington P...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Authoritarianism

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In my last post, I wrote about a piece by Thomas Edsall reviewing research that shows a large and increasing connection between "author...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Social science repeats itself

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Thomas Edsall has a piece in which he cites a variety of work saying that Democratic and Republican voters are increasingly divided by val...
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Saturday, March 31, 2018

You've got questions

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A comment on my previous post asked about the percent of people rating the parties at 100.  Here is the figure: There is no clear trend...
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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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