Friday, April 7th, 2017
Perceptions of Economic Fairness
By Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20
Over the past two months we have analyzed economic optimism from many perspectives, including race, gender, education, age, locality, party identification, ideology, …
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Friday, March 24th, 2017
2016 Presidential Election and Economic Optimism
By Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20
Two weeks ago, we looked at Party Identification, Ideology, and Economic Optimism. Here, we look to see what role economic optimism played…
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Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Party Identification, Ideology, and Economic Optimism
By Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20
Two weeks ago we showed that there is an interesting and significant relationship between locality and economic optimism, and that people of…
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Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Economic Optimism: Does Age or Locality Have an Influence?
By Brayden Zimmerman ’20 & Will Bordash ’18
In the previous report, we looked to see if there was a connection between economic optimism and gender, race, or education. Here,…
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Friday, February 3rd, 2017
Economic Optimism: Who has it and why does it matter
By Brayden Zimmerman ’20 & Will Bordash ’18
Even roughly three months after the last Presidential Election, it’s hard to make sense of what happened. Why was there such a…
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Friday, February 3rd, 2017
Survey Center Launch
The Bucknell Institute for Public Policy fielded a survey last summer under the direction of Professor Chris Ellis (Political Science). The survey asked respondents several questions about their optimism about…
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