Civic Studies » 2024 election http://civicstudies.org An intellectual community of researchers and practitioners dedicated to building the emerging field of civic studies Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:08:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 reaching the opt-outs https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33950 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33950#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:57:29 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33950 Continue reading →]]> http://civicstudies.org/2025/04/28/reaching-the-opt-outs/feed/ 0 CIRCLE report: How Does Gen Z Really Feel about Democracy? https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33873 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33873#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:59:41 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33873 Continue reading →]]> http://civicstudies.org/2025/04/09/circle-report-how-does-gen-z-really-feel-about-democracy/feed/ 0 Where have lower-educated voters moved right? (a look at 102 countries over 35 years) https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33068 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33068#comments Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:59:02 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33068 I believe that left parties should draw their votes from lower on the socio-economic hierarchy, so that they can compete by offering more governmental support. Right parties should draw their votes from the upper end, so that they can compete by promising economic growth. This debate and competition is healthy. In contrast, when left parties […]

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Continue reading →]]> http://civicstudies.org/2024/11/30/where-have-lower-educated-voters-moved-right-a-look-at-102-countries-over-35-years/feed/ 0 complexity and nuance about public opinion https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32854 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32854#comments Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:20:05 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32854 Last Monday, I gave a talk at Colgate University. I claimed that if you read a lot of mainstream survey research, you’re likely to conclude that “people are stupid and they hate each other,” but this negative assessment reflects some bias. A student, Colgate senior Clementina Aboagye, told Maddie Koger of the Colgate Maroon-News: “I […]

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Continue reading →]]> http://civicstudies.org/2024/11/11/social-class-and-the-youth-vote-in-2024/feed/ 0 explaining a past election versus deciding what to do next https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32895 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32895#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:13:59 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32895 The Internet is saturated with explanations of the 2024 election. Some of these “quick takes” are dispassionate, while others take the form: If only Harris had done what I know is right, she would have won. The challenge is epistemic: it’s virtually impossible to explain a single past event that involves many decision-makers (in this […]

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Continue reading →]]> http://civicstudies.org/2024/11/06/strategizing-for-civil-resistance-in-defense-of-democracy/feed/ 0 a constitutional crisis is not the end of history https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32817 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32817#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:39:17 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32817 In Forbes yesterday, Meg Little Reilly paraphrases and quotes me: American students are generally taught that the U.S. Constitution is unbreakable — which has been true, thus far—but this narrative reinforces the notion that if the Constitution were to fall, so too would the nation. For many Americans, everything that comes after political unrest is […]

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Continue reading →]]> http://civicstudies.org/2024/10/25/what-voters-are-hearing-about-in-the-2024-election/feed/ 0 why “liberal” can sound like “upper-class” https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32265 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32265#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:57:42 +0000 https://peterlevine.ws/?p=32265 In an article reporting The New York Times‘ recent battleground state polls, Lisa Lerer and Ruth Igielnik quote Jonathan Ball, a Michigan floor-installer: [He] said he believed Mr. Trump would do more to help working Americans than Ms. Harris. “I think she’s more liberal. I just don’t think she’s all for the middle class,” said Mr. Ball, […]

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