Nick Valentino appointed Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science
October 3, 2024
Congratulations to Nicholas A. Valentino for being appointed the Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science!A Collegiate Professorship is one of the highest honors the college awards to active tenured faculty members at the full professor rank who warrant the distinctive recognition that a named professorship carries.Collegiate Professorships are offered to colleagues…
Undecided voters unable to pick a candidate whose views align
October 3, 2024
If you’re an undecided voter in today’s political climate, do not take personally the less-than-flattering labels—lazy, indecisive or frustrating—that partisan voters use.Instead, as a University of Michigan expert says, you simply have struggled with selecting a presidential candidate whose policies neatly align with your beliefs.“Their indecision is different than selecting…
CPS Affiliates to be Honored at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
September 3, 2024
CPS Director Ken Kollman will receive the 2024 Eldersveld Career Achievement AwardKen Kollman, Director of the Center for Political Studies (CPS) at the Institute for Social Research, will receive the 2024 Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the APSA at the Annual Meeting…
Studying the social sciences gives a voice to the voiceless
August 30, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR — The social sciences can be summed up simply as a mission to understand why people do what they do and think what they think. This rubric works across nearly every discipline of the social sciences, from economics to health-related studies to in-depth political research.This…
Poll position: Opinion surveys still matter
August 29, 2024
ANN ARBOR—If you’re feeling a bit confused by the constant media coverage about presidential election polls, you’re not alone.Whether it’s the polls’ margin of error or their fairness and accuracy, the information can become important for some voters in their election choices. And do the polls matter since the presidential…
2024 Junior Professional Research cohort joins nine projects at ISR
July 22, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR — The nine scholars in the 2024 Junior Professional Researcher (JPR) cohort at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) are now at work, each joining one of nine different projects that represent many different research disciplines. The JPRs are joining these projects for the next…
Remembering Samuel Barnes
June 14, 2024
Samuel H. Barnes, a leading scholar on voting behavior and political party affiliation in Western democracies and past affiliate of the Center for Political Studies, died on May 21, at 93. More from MLive.
CPS launches SUNGEO project to assist in merging data across different scales
June 12, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR — The Institute for Social Research’s Center for Political Studies (CPS) has launched a new project to address a common challenge for social researchers: misalignment that arises when data are collected at varying levels of scale.The Subnational Geospatial Data Archive (SUNGEO) went live in its…
The Hill Opinion: Biden knows executive order on border will fail. Blame our broken system
June 11, 2024
Biden’s executive order on the border will fail, Kenneth Lowande says in an Opinion out in The Hill. “The purpose of the president going alone on immigration is political; whether it fixes the problem is almost beside the point.” More from the UM Department of Political Science.
Sarah Burgard and Team Win LSA Meet the Moment Initiative Grant for Health Equity Research
June 5, 2024
U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts has awarded $4.7 million to five new faculty research projects that are seeking to enact global change across multiple fields and disciplines. Known as the LSA Meet the Moment Research Initiative, LSA Dean Anne Curzan notes the initiative’s efforts to combat “generational…