Do Denisonians Have Informed Opinions about Foreign Aid?

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…

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…