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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.

Miller-Converse Lecture

James Gibson of the Washington University in St. Louis presents the next Miller-Converse Lecture, Democracy’s Destruction?
The 2020 Election, Trump’s Insurrection, and the Strength of America’s Political Institutions

ISR-Thompson 1430 on March 21, 2024 at 4 p.m.

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.

Vincent Hutchings Receives the 2023 Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award

Vincent HutchingsPosted Sept. 1, 2023. Vincent Hutchings has been presented the Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award by the American Political Science Association (APSA), a recognition of distinguished scholarship in political science that has contributed to understanding racial and ethnic politics and the conditions under which diversity and intergroup tolerance thrive in democratic societies. Hutchings has had a tremendous influence on the field of political science, and his contributions have made a lasting mark on the study of racial and ethnic politics and public opinion as well as the professional trajectories of his students.  The APSA award committee cited Hutchings’ accomplishments through not only his own pioneering scholarship and theoretical innovations around racial prejudice and political psychology and attitudes, but also by building up the key infrastructures to support these advances. 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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African continent

Featured Project

Local Patterns of Election-Related Violence and Peace

This project leverages election observer missions and local election results to inform the challenges of building sustainable peace in Africa. The resulting data sets will allow academics and practitioners to analyze the relationship between elections and violence and to identify local factors – such as public infrastructure and services – that can inform efforts to promote sustainable peace in Africa. Anne Pitcher is co-PI, with Grant Masterson.

Learn more about the project

Fair Enough

Featured Publication

Fair Enough: Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality

Fair Enough? proposes and tests a new framework for studying attitudes toward redistributive social policies. These attitudes, the book argues, are shaped by at least two motives. First, people support policies that increase their own expected income. Second, they support policies that move the status quo closer to what is prescribed by shared norms of fairness. In most circumstances, saying the “fair thing” is easier than reasoning according to one’s pocketbook. But there are important exceptions: when policies have large and certain pocketbook consequences, people take the self-interested position instead of the ‘fair’ one. Fair Enough? builds on this simple framework to explain puzzling attitudinal trends in post-industrial democracies including a decline in support for redistribution in Great Britain, the erosion of social solidarity in France, and a declining correlation between income and support for redistribution in the United States.

Read more about the book.