Miles D. Williams, Visiting Assistant Professor of Data for Political Research [Note: This is a version of a post Dr. Williams did for Foreign Figures] Survey experiments are a technique that social scientists use when they want to measure something hard to ask people directly about or when they want to identify causal effects. I…
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How Are We Feeling About the Election?
By Paul A. Djupe, Data for Political Research [3:08am] I just had my first true election freakout – the pit of the stomach, head-spin, wake up, phone scroll for an hour kind. I know I’m not the only one. Wait, am I the only one? 127 collected generalized emotion data from March 2024 and October…
Do Denisonians Value Democracy Over Party?
By Eizo Lang-Ezekiel The death of democracy does not always occur with a coup d’état or a revolution. Instead, it often decays one small step at a time, with gradual norm breaking by politicians while people stay passive or even supportive.[1] Democracy has weakened in many countries, such as in Turkey, Hungary and Brazil, but…