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…
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…
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…
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…
2021 Mitofsky Award Announcement
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is pleased to announce Lawrence D. Bobo, Dean of Social…
The Purdue Opinion Panel Polls of American Teenagers
In the early 1940s, Purdue University Professor of Education and Psychology and Director of the Division of Educational Reference Hermann Henry Remmers…
W. E. B. Du Bois and "The Philadelphia Negro"
Though public opinion research owes a strong debt to commercial marketing techniques, the field remains deeply connected to the settlement house movement…
New U.S. State Collection Available at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
The Roper Center at Cornell University is proud to announce a new initiative to make questions from U.S. state-level polls available in the Roper iPoll…
Kohut Fellowship in Public Opinion & Survey Research Now Accepting Applications
The Andrew Kohut Fellowship in Public Opinion & Survey Research honors the memory of Andrew Kohut and his numerous contributions to the science and…
Polling and Democracy, The Road Ahead
While some consider public opinion polls critical to democratic accountability, others question the ability of today’s pollsters to accurately reflect the…
Call for Nominations: 2021 Warren J. Mitofsky Award
Call for Nominations: An annual award of The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, The Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence…
Support for Fixing Undemocratic Institutions
American Political Institutions are Dangerously Undemocratic. When do people support fixing them?by Colin Cepuran Popular commentators and some political…
Roper Center Now Accepting Applications for the Mitofsky Graduate Research Fellowship
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University – the world’s largest public opinion data archive – has one Graduate Assistantship…
Women and Public Opinion Polling
By Kwelina Thompson Edith Halsey was coming up short. She was determined to complete her work on time, but her last tasks were proving elusive. Still…
1962 NIPO Poll of Jewish Residents of Amsterdam
In the wake of WWII, the Gallup-affiliated Netherlands Institute of Public Opinion (NIPO) began a polling series of the Dutch population’s post-war…
Say Their Names. Hear Their Voices
As we reflect on racism and anti-racism, the Roper Center has identified and is making available all public opinion surveys of Black Americans in the…
Congratulations AAPOR!
Roper Center’s data curation team have long noticed a very clear pattern. Every year, in the middle of May, the number of polls publicly released drops…
Roper COVID-19 Data Update
Roper Center’s rapidly growing collection of public opinion data on COVID-19 now includes studies from 44 organizations, including global, U.S. national,…