Call For Nominations
The 2023 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research An annual award of The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell…
The Five-Country Survey: Roper’s Collection Offers a Look at West African Attitudes in the 1960s
Large sample surveys of the general population in countries across West Africa before the advent of the Afrobarometer are difficult to come by. Much of…
Misinformation, Vaccination, and Social Media Use Across the Political Aisle
Two years removed from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans’ social, economic, and political lives have been forever changed by the rapid…
Roper Center Fellowship Opportunities
Application Deadline: March 10, 2023 The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is accepting applications for three funded fellowships in the field of…
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Announced
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University and the American Association For Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) announce their…
Roper Ambassador Program
As we celebrate our diamond anniversary, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University truly appreciates your continued support. …
A New Era for the Roper Center at Cornell
Since the Roper Center moved to Cornell University in 2015, I have had the incredible honor of serving as the Center’s executive director. My connection…
2022 Collaborative Midterm Survey
The Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) was awarded $2 million by the National Science Foundation's American National Election Study Competition to …
2022 Mitofsky Award Announcement
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is pleased to announce Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware…
Call for Nominations: 2022 Warren J. Mitofsky Award
Call for Nominations The 2022 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research An annual award of The Roper Center for Public…
Roper Center Marks 75th Year
In 1947, the first punchcards from Elmo Roper’s polls were deposited at Williams College, establishing the first social science data archive in the world…
Call for Proposals
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research invites paper proposals for a panel featuring underutilized data from the archive for next year’s Social…
Roper Fellowships Now Accepting Applications
Each year the Roper Center funds two fellows, the Mitofsky Fellow Graduate Assistantship and the Andrew Kohut Fellowship. Students enrolled at Cornell are…
New Health Poll Database Debuts at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Ithaca, NY – On October 22, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,…
The Microfoundations of (Non-)Redistribution in Colombia
By Vincent MauroWhy do some democracies remain so highly unequal? Existing political science literature equips us with surprisingly few theoretical tools…
Using Historical Survey Data on Military Base Closures to Understand Public Support for Prison Closures
By Jacob HarrisAs a consequence of the prison boom that nearly tripled the number of prisons in the U.S. between 1970-2006, many states have begun paring…
Abortion in Argentina: Years in the Making?
By Emily B. Jackson1. 2015-2020: Ni Una Menos and the legalization of abortionIn 2015, a feminist movement emerged in Argentina under the mantle Ni Una…
Wording Effects on Differences in Support for Socialist Programs
By Genevieve Richards Americans dislike government plans, dislike the loss of private industry, but support an expanded Medicare for All. The phenomenon…
The Roper Center Reflects On 20 Years Of Polling Since 9/11
By Jonathon P. Schuldt Interim Executive Director, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Associate Professor of Communication, Cornell University …
Reflecting on the Juneteenth Holiday
Before the U.S. Congress' recent passing of legislation to President Biden for final approval, Cornell University chose to acknowledge Juneteenth with a…