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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Representation

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 A few weeks ago, I had a post on opinions about whether the Supreme Court should consider public opinion when making decisions .  There was...
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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Who has changed?

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 People with more education used to be more likely to vote Republican than people with less education.  Things have now reversed, so more ed...
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Sunday, November 13, 2022

Law and public opinion, part 2

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 It took a while, but I am returning to a question I wrote about in a previous post :  ""When the Supreme Court decides an import...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

How good was it?

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The President's party almost always loses seats in midterm elections.  But is it normal to lose a lot of seats, or do people just rememb...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Predictions

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Although I study public opinion, that doesn't give me any special insight as far as election predictions are concerned.  With public opi...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Conjectures and refutations

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Earlier this year, I had a post about a survey of college students on free speech issues.  Students at more selective universities (measure...
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 ...
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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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