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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Maybe not so different

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Paul Krugman recently had a column about the influence of rich people--"the 0.1 percent, or maybe the 0.01 percent"--on policy.  ...
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Saturday, June 22, 2019

Postscript on elites and the public

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In my last post, I noted that between 1998 and 2014 Democratic elites, Republican elites, and the public all became less likely to say that ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Elites and the public, 1998-2014

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Last week David Brooks had a column about public opinion on foreign policy, based on a survey by the Center for American Progress .  In Bro...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Gaps between elite and public opinion

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In a  recent post , I mentioned a tendency (especially among conservatives) to assume that elites are to the left of the public.  In the sur...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming

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I was going to write another post about the difference between the opinions of political elites and the general public, and I will in the no...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

More on elites

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This post follows up on a couple of others.  In my most recent post I said that there was a trend towards believing in climate change over ...
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...
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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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