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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Vibe shift?

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Many people have talked about a difference in reactions to Trump's first and second terms:  Ezra Klein writes   "in 2016, Trump fel...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Education, partisanship, and the world

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As I've mentioned before , one of the major components of Donald Trump's world-view is that other nations are gaining at our expens...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

A hypothesis about conspiracy theories

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 I'm interested in the relationship between political views and belief in conspiracy theories, and have had several posts on the issue...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

The winters of our discontent

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 Back in 2011, I wrote about a question first asked by Gallup in 1952:  "As you look to the future, do you think life for people gene...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Whisky, you're the devil?

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 In 2001, Gallup asked "Do you personally, think drinking in moderation--that is, one or two drinks a day--is good for your health, mak...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

A tale of two columns, part 3

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 My last post noted that although confidence in the military had increased since the 1970s, it had declined in the last few years.  I wonder...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

A tale of two columns, part 2

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As I mentioned last time, there are some exceptions to the general pattern of declining confidence in institutions.  One is small business: ...
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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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