Going Too Far: The American Public's Attitudes toward Protest Movements blog
The photographs out of Ferguson are new, but the scene is all too familiar: signs, bullhorns, protesters, police. The ongoing demonstrations in Missouri…
PRRI/RNS Religion News Monthly Survey
10 new 2013 studies are available from the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service. These studies cover a wide range of news stories…
Money, Politics and the American Public
“Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with nowadays.” — Will Rogers, Daily Telegram, 1931 Observers of the…
Data Set Released for "Medication Adherence in America: A National Report Card 2013" blog
The Roper Center is pleased to announce the release of the dataset for the National Community Pharmacists Association's Medication Adherence in America: A…
2013 America's Place in the World Poll blog
Explore the Pew Research Center and Council of Foreign Relations' "America's Place in the World" poll dataset. This survey deals with foreign and domestic…
New Data Collection: AP-NORC
The Roper Center is pleased to announce the availability of datasets from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey series. This…
The Public and Ebola: What the Polls Say blog
The news stories now follow a familiar pattern: an outbreak of a new and frightening disease on another continent, the first cases found in the U.S., the…
Love, Marriage and the Vatican: Americans' Attitudes about Marriage and the Catholic Church blog
Next week, the world’s Catholic bishops will descend upon Rome for an Extraordinary General Council of the Synod. This rare meeting of church leaders has…
The Public's Perception of the Obesity Epidemic blog
Obesity has been called a major health crisis and a national epidemic. Health authorities, including prominent spokespeople like Michelle Obama and the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …