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A Visual History of the ANES

A Visual History of the ANES

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the American National Election Studies– the definitive study of American political attitudes and behavior. Read a new visual history of the project now on the CPS blog.

Read more about what we’ve learned from the project in CPS’s Q&A with ANES PI Nicholas Valentino.

Events

This year’s CPS Wednesday seminar series has an exciting lineup of speakers.

The 2024 Mexican Elections in Context

Next June, Mexico will elect a new president, 500 members of Congress, 128 members of the Senate, and thousands of local officials. This panel will discuss the pivotal upcoming election in an international context.

Michigan Union, Anderson ABC (1st Floor) on April 9, 2024, 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Celebrating 75 years of the American National Election Studies

The American National Election Studies celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2024 with events at MPSA, APSA, and more.  The Center for Political Studies blog offers chronicles, comments, and reflections on the project. More from CPS.

ANES at 75

CPS News

Political Rage on Social Media Is Making Us Cynical

Political ragePosted March 11, 2024.  Political anger and cynicism are rising in the U.S. and in many democracies worldwide, and both are associated with exposure to political attacks on social media, a new study by CPS’s Ariel Hasell, Brian Weeks, and Audrey Halversen shows. More from CPS.

Jon Miller: America's trust in science survived pandemic and Trump attacks

MillerPosted March 11, 2024. Americans’ basic confidence in science and scientific expertise was unshaken by the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific expertise, and has remained high during the last six decades, according to an analysis led by the University of Michigan’s Jon Miller of the Center for Political Studies. More from Michigan News.

Amaney Jamal to present the WVS Ronald F. Inglehart Honorary Lecture

Amaney JamalPosted Dec. 4, 2023. Amaney Jamal of Princeton, co-founder of the Arab Barometer, will present the World Values Survey’s Ronald F. Inglehart Honorary Lecture on Dec. 8, 2024 “The Global Segregation of the Poor.” Register and learn more.

Next Generation Scholar Hwayong Shin Launches Research Career Studying Public Opinion

Hwayong ShinPosted Sept. 11, 2023. Next Generation scholar Hwayong Shin earned a trifecta of Next Generation fellowships during her time at CPS, launching the start of her research career studying public opinion. Read more.

Celebrating 50 years of the Center for Political Studies

The Center for Political Studies marked its 50th anniversary with a celebration featuring a keynote address by Arthur Lupia. Many alumni and faculty also shared their reflections on what the center has meant to them. Click here to view a recording of the event and statements about CPS.

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Climate change

Featured Project

Climate Change, Demographic Shifts, and Socio-Political Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leveraging the skills of an exceptional interdisciplinary team of University of Michigan’s social, data, and climate scientists, this project will advance the frontiers of usable social-scientific knowledge at the intersection of climate, demography, and socio-political stability as it affects U.S. national security interests. The project will analyze how complex interactions of climate and demographic change affect sociopolitical stability in Africa, assess where and when risks are greatest, and thus respond to two central concerns of the 2022 U.S. National Defense Strategy: climate change and China (PRC). The project will generate actionable research findings on factors that prompt and locations that harbor great risks of political instability and conflict in Africa.

Learn more about the project, funded by the Minerva Research Initiative.

The PIs are Arun Agrawal and Yuri Zhukov.

Partisan Hostility and American Democracy

Featured Publication

Partisan Hostility and American Democracy

For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear that strong partisan views, particularly hostility to the opposing party, are damaging democracy. Is partisanship as dangerous as we fear it is? To provide an answer, this book offers a nuanced evaluation of when and how partisan animosity matters in today’s highly charged, dynamic political environment, drawing on panel data from some of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, 2019 through 2021. The authors– James N. Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky, and John Barry Ryan– show that partisanship powerfully shapes political behaviors, but its effects are conditional, not constant. Instead, it is most powerful when politicians send clear signals and when an issue is unlikely to bring direct personal consequences. In the absence of these conditions, other factors often dominate decision-making. They argue that while partisan hostility has degraded US politics—for example, politicizing previously non-political issues and undermining compromise—it is not in itself an existential threat. As their research shows, the future of American democracy depends on how politicians, more than ordinary voters, behave.

Read more about the book. (University of Chicago Press: June 2024)