Social Science Space

Just over a month ago in November, Michelle Wu was sworn in as the first woman and person of color elected as […]

Lingering questions about the misfire in 2020, in which voter support for then-President Donald Trump was understated in final pre-election polls, suggest that troubles in accurately surveying presidential elections could be deeper and more profound than previously recognized.

One of the most heavily contested voting-policy issues in the 2020 election, in both the courts and the political arena, […]

The opening days of the administration of Joe Biden as U.S. president have continued two themes of the last administration: […]

Rules still apply, even when demagogues and populists are in power. What’s more, transgressions and discursive shifts happen slowly, frequently unnoticed. But words lead to deeds!

A day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Vice President […]

David Canter, a psychologist observing from the United Kingdom, struggles to explain how Trump got 70 million votes in the United states

The latest American election made it evident that polls faltered, overall. And that misstep promises to resonate through the field of survey research.

W. Joseph Campbell is an authority on the history of presidential polling, and in that story, as well as his recent book, “Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in Presidential Elections,” he details just how polls and pollsters – and those who put their faith in them – have misread public opinion when it comes to elections.

When Americans vote this fall, the candidates on their ballots will not reflect the diversity of the United States. Despite […]

When will the United States, and frankly the world, be able to cast a dispassionate eye on the U.S. elections […]

Political scientist Joshua Holzer identifies a number of proven electoral strategies used elsewhere that could replace the United States’ Electoral College.