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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Climate of opinion

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In the last week or so, Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat have published columns suggesting that the climate change issue is hurting the left...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

They said you was high class

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A few days ago, the New York Times had a story called "Why high-class people get away with incompetence ," based on research publi...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Words and thoughts

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A few days ago, Jason Stanley and David Beaver had a piece in the New York Times saying that the words used to talk about things influence ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Protection and free trade

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There has been some debate on whether the "trade war" that seems to be emerging will help or hurt Donald Trump.  Catherine Rampel...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Elites and the public on other things

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In my last post, I wrote about differences between the opinions of elites and the public on tariffs.  The same survey also asked about seven...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Elites and the public on tariffs

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My last few posts have been about how public opinion moved to the left between 2014 and 2016, especially on issues of race.  That raises an ...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Left turn?, part 3

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I thought I just had a few odds and ends to clear up regarding my last post, but then I ran across a post from January .  That was about a c...
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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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