A new PRRI study, “I Know What You Did Last Sunday: Measuring Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Behavior, Belief, and Belonging,” asked random samples of Americans identical questions about religious attendance, affiliation, salience and belief in God on two surveys – one via telephone and the other online – […] Read more »
Where the ADL’s Global Anti-Semitism Survey Falters
Yesterday the Anti-Defamation League released the ADL Global 100, a worldwide study of anti-Semitic attitudes. It’s a big, comprehensive report, and it includes some fascinating results — Iran, for instance, has less anti-Semitism than anywhere else in the Middle East or North Africa. And 35 percent of the world’s population […] Read more »
Global Survey: One in Four People Harbor Anti-Semitic Beliefs
The Anti-Defamation League’s first ever global survey of anti-Semitic attitudes has found that one-quarter of its survey’s respondents, representing 4.1 billion adults around the world, harbor negative stereotypes about Jews. The ADL surveyed 53,100 adults in 102 countries, presenting them with a list of 11 Jewish stereotypes, ranging from fear […] Read more »
Inside America’s Dour Decade
These are tough times for politicians looking for public support – particularly the kind of support that’s measured in polls. In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, only 44% say they have positive feelings toward President Barack Obama. For the Democratic Party, the figure is 36%. For the Republican […] Read more »
The Minimal Class Divide in American Politics
How deep is the class divide in American politics today? According to some scholars and pundits, it is very deep indeed. In a recent post on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, Larry Bartels of Vanderbilt University, the author of Unequal Democracy and a highly regarded public opinion scholar, presented […] Read more »
The religious left is struggling. Can the cause of economic justice help it rise again?
The religious left was never as powerful and cohesive as the religious right. But a new report based on many interviews with religious progressive leaders finds that the Obama era may have further weakened Democrats’ interest in the non-secular. The report released Thursday by the Brookings Institution argues that religious […] Read more »