Analysis: Winning Trade Without Winning Hearts
Winning Trade Without Winning HeartsLatin American public opinion and the U.S.–China contest, 2001–2024By Dayra Lascano, Kohut Scholar, Roper Center for…
Analysis: How Americans Draw the Line on AI in Healthcare
How Americans Draw the Line on AI in HealthcareBy: Shree Manivel, 2026 Andrew Kohut Summer Scholar*Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has…
Public Opinion on Hong Kong’s Precarious Future in 1997
By Samuel Liu (PhD Candidate, Department of Government)[1]The July 1, 1997 sovereignty transfer of Hong Kong from the U.K. to China transformed the last…
The Second Release of the Most Important Problem Dataset (MIPD): Key Features and Innovations
By Tevfik Murat Yildirim and Laron K. Williams 1 IntroductionThe question of ‘what is the most important problem (MIP) facing the…
Public Opinion and Policy Implications of Student Loan Debt Forgiveness in the U.S.
By Nia Holland2024 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow 1. Introduction and significanceAfter the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, or the GI Bill, was signed…
When Perception is Reality
By Aaron ChildreeSeptember 2023In the year from June 2022 to June 2023, inflation gradually but consistently decreased from its peak of 9.1 percent to 3…
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…
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 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…
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…
Support for Fixing Undemocratic Institutions
American Political Institutions are Dangerously Undemocratic. When do people support fixing them?by Colin Cepuran Popular commentators and some…
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…
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,…
British Institute of Public Opinion Polls from 1938-1946 in Roper iPoll
BIPO PollsQuestions from British Institute of Public Opinion polls from 1938-1946 have been added to Roper iPoll question search. Click here to see all…
New Data Provider: Colorado College State of the Rockies Project
We are excited to welcome The Colorado College State of the Rockies Project as a new Roper Center data provider. The State of the Rockies Project explores…
THE (IL)LEGITIMATE HEGEMON
Attitudes toward the U.S. in West GermanyBy Nina ObermeierAnalyzing attitudes toward the U.S. in West Germany during the Cold War provides insight into…
Fifty Years Since Stonewall: The Change in Public Opinion
Polls measuring that change have increased in frequency and broadened in scope, shifting focus as new debates came to the forefront of public discussion,…
National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse 1971 Poll
In response to the growing prevalence of marijuana use in youth culture in the U.S., President Richard Nixon appointed the National Commission on…
The Louis Harris & Associates Violence Survey
The year 1968 was a particularly brutal year for political tensions, popular agitation, and violence. The dramatic events of that year included…
Assassination Nation: Public Responses to King and Kennedy in 1968
In 1968, even more so than in most years, the news was bleak – the carnage in Vietnam, race riots, violence in the streets at the Democratic National…