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Does the media convey accurate information about what policymakers do?
The public adjust their preferences for policy spending downward when spending increases and upward when spending decreases. In their new book, Information and Democracy: Public Policy in the News, Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien argue that the public respond in this way because they are getting information about policy spending from the news.
Data on the Russian invasion of Ukraine available in near-real time
Post developed by Katherine Pearson In order to track and share data on events unfolding in Ukraine, Yuri Zhukov, Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Associate Professor at the Center for Political Studies, launched VIINA: Violent Incident...
ObSERV Study improves methods for observing elections and election-related violence
Post developed by Anne Pitcher, Rod Alence, Melanie Roberts, and Katherine Pearson Secure elections are essential to democracy. ObSERV, a new study by researchers at the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) and the University of Michigan,...
Can Democracy Survive? The 2021 Miller-Converse Roundtable
Every year the Center for Political Studies (CPS) celebrates two founders of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and CPS: Warren Miller and Phil Converse. The 2021 event featured a roundtable discussion of research by three CPS faculty members: Ken Kollman, Robert...
“If They Only Knew”: Informing Blacks and Whites about the Racial Wealth Gap
Vincent Hutchings delivered the inaugural lecture of the Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professorship in Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies on March 31, 2021. Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal, the author of the landmark study An American Dilemma,...
CoderSpaces provide data science support and hands-on learning opportunities for faculty, staff, and students
Post by Jule Krüger, Program Manager for big data/data science. Jule developed CoderSpaces, weekly programming sessions at the University of Michigan in support of cutting edge research and scientific advancements, and has hosted them since 2019. For the past two...
Online survey respondents reveal different personality traits compared to face-to-face respondents
Post developed by Nicholas Valentino and Katherine Pearson Survey research is an ever-evolving field. Technology has increased the number of ways to reach respondents, while simultaneously reducing response rates by freeing people from the constraints of one land-line...
Update on the the ANES 2020 Time Series Study
Post developed by Ted Brader, Lauren Guggenheim, and Katherine Pearson In every U.S. presidential election since 1948, the American National Election Studies (ANES) has conducted pre- and post-election surveys of a large representative sample of American voters. ANES...
Religion’s Sudden Decline: Why It’s Happening and What Comes Next
By Ronald F Inglehart, Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor Emeritus of Democracy, Democratization and Human Rights, and Research Professor Emeritus at theCenter for Political Studies. Professor Inglehart is the author of the forthcoming book Religion’s Sudden Decline:...
The Value of Social Science Research
The Center for Political Studies marked its 50th anniversary with a virtual celebration on October 29, 2020. The event featured a talk by Arthur Lupia titled “Now More Than Ever: The Increasing Public Value of Social Science Research.” The event began with a brief...
