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Thursday, October 27, 2022

No quarter, part 2

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 In my last post, I discussed the idea that the combination of social liberalism and economic conservatism (or what is sometimes called ...
Friday, October 21, 2022

No quarter

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 The other day, Paul Krugman proposed that Liz Truss failed because her program appealed to people who are to the right on economics and to...
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Monday, October 17, 2022

Law and public opinion, part 1

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Starting in 1987, a number of surveys have asked " When the Supreme Court decides an important constitutional case, should it only cons...
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Monday, October 10, 2022

Self-deception

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 A few weeks ago, Ross Douthat asked "How does a party that historically represented the rich and big business adapt to a world where ...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Lost in translation

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 A few days ago, the New York Times had an opinion piece by Huw Green , a clinical psychologist, which said "A clear causal link betwee...
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Friday, September 30, 2022

The other popular vote

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Some observers say that the Republicans remain competitive only because they benefit from features of the American political system such as ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2022

Self-interest, economics, and partisanship

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 My last post didn't include any data.  That's because it involves a general framework for interpreting events rather than a specifi...
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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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