The Public and Proposed Constitutional Amendments: We Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Last week Senator Tom Udall sponsored a bill to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Congress to place limits on campaign contributions and wrote in The…
The Public and Labor Unions blog
On May 14, 1882, unionized workers in New York City held a parade and picnic, and the seeds of the Labor Day holiday were planted. About 50 years later,…
The American Public's Attitudes about Richard Nixon Post-Watergate
On August 9, 1974, plagued by the Watergate scandal and the threat of impeachment, Richard Nixon resigned from the highest office in the United States,…
New 2014 ORC/CNN Survey Datasets Available
Six Opinion Research Corporation/Cable News Network studies conducted from January to May, 2014 are now available for download. These studies cover a wide…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 blog
The tragic crash in eastern Ukraine of Malaysia Airline Flight 17, a Boeing 777 carrying 298 people, marks the second catastrophic event this year for…
2013 Mitofsky Award Recipients Adam Berinsky and Eric Schickler
It is with great pleasure that the Board of Directors of the Roper Center announces the winners of the 2013 Warren J. Mitofsky Award…
2007 Mitofsky Award Recipient John Mueller
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut take great pleasure in announcing that Professor…
2008 Mitofsky Award Recipient Robert Blendon
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is pleased to announce that Professor Robert Blendon of Harvard University is the…
2011 Mitofsky Award Recipient Kathleen Frankovic
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is pleased to announce that Kathleen A. Frankovic, former polling director at CBS…
2012 Mitofsky Award Recipient Norman Bradburn
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is pleased to announce that Norman M. Bradburn, senior fellow with the Cultural…
2014 Mitofsky Award Recipient Andrew Kohut
The Roper Center’s Board of Directors is delighted to announce the 2014 Warren Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research has been …
Public Opinion on Civil Rights: Reflections on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 blog
Likely the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ushered in a new era in American civil rights as…
2010 Mitofsky Award Recipient James A. Davis
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is pleased to announce that James A. Davis, Principal Investigator, emeritus, of…
2009 Mitofsky Award Recipient Robert Wuthnow
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is pleased to announce that Professor Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University is the…
D-Day? What's That? blog
As people all over the world observe the 70th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy - widely considered the turning point of World War II -…
Russian Leaders blog
Stalin - Krushchev - Brezhnev Given the long history of adversarial relations between the United States and Russia/the Soviet…
2014 Gallup Data Available
Nine Gallup Organization studies conducted from January to March, 2014 are now available for download. These studies cover a wide range of topics…
The Changing Role of Women blog
A major political party has for the first time ever a woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as the front runner for President of the United States. So much has…
U.S. Attitudes toward China Over 25 Years since Start of Tiananmen Square Protests
In April of 1989, thousands of Chinese citizens began protesting human rights conditions and government reform, which led to one of the most violent…
RARE Award Winners to Present
The two student recipients of the 2014 Roper Award for Research Experience (RARE) will present their findings at the University of Connecticut's Frontiers…