scholarship on social groups, exploring the politics of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, class and other dimensions of identity and structural disadvantage.
Publishes important theoretical contributions to opinion and communication research, analyses of current public opinion, and investigations of methodological issues involved in survey validity..
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics began because of Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. The Study is a nationally representative longitudinal survey that surveys the same people over time, as well as their children, and so on (there are families who have been in the survey for seven generations). It truly is America's family tree..
Since 1948, researchers at the U-M Institute for Social Research have studied why Americans vote the way they do in U.S. Presidential elections. Here Phil Converse discusses with Bill Jacoby some of what they've learned..
The Institute for Social Research serves as a national laboratory for the social sciences, advancing public understanding of human behavior, at all ages, through empirical research of extraordinary depth and breadth..