What is the role of status discontent in the emergence of right-wing populism? If it does play a key role, does it matter more where someone stands at any given moment or whether someone is moving up the ladder or down? … It is hardly a secret that the white […] Read more »
Hispanic Americans are no longer ‘minority voters’
Are Hispanic Americans assimilating into the white mainstream and voting accordingly? A new poll from the Wall Street Journal shows that Hispanics in the sample now divide their vote evenly between the two main parties. This comes on the heels of a gubernatorial exit poll showing Republican Virginia governor Glenn […] Read more »
Global Public Opinion in an Era of Democratic Anxiety
As democratic nations have wrestled with economic, social and geopolitical upheaval in recent years, the future of liberal democracy has come into question. In countries across the globe, democratic norms and civil liberties have deteriorated, while populists have enjoyed surprising success at the ballot box. Our international surveys reveal four […] Read more »
These nine voter groups show the political divide in America
On election nights, the nation is sorted neatly into two colors: red and blue. But that binary approach doesn’t do a great job of capturing the beliefs and attitudes of 300-plus million people. There are a lot of nuances out there, as described in the NBC News County to County […] Read more »
How Voters Feel About Josh Hawley’s ‘Attack on Men’
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri surprised even some allies when he recently devoted his entire speech at a high-profile national conference of conservatives to an extended analysis of why so many men appear stuck in a cycle of “idleness and pornography and video games,” as he put it. Hawley’s warnings […] Read more »
Commonsense Solidarity: How a working-class coalition can be built, and maintained
In 2021, Jacobin, a New York-based socialist magazine with a print circulation of 75,000 and an online audience of three million a month, collaborated with YouGov to survey working-class voting behavior in the United States. The work was done in conjunction with the newly formed Center for WorkingClass Politics. … […] Read more »