David Howell, director of studies for the CSES and director of operations for the ANES, has won the OVPR Research Staff Leadership Recognition Award
🎊 Congratulations to David Howell, director of studies for @cses.bsky.social and director of operations for the ANES @electionstudies.bsky.social -- honored by OVPR with the Research Staff Leadership Recognition Award! @umisr.bsky.social
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There's still time to submit your ideas for the ANES 2026 Pilot Study. Suggestions of any level of detail are welcome. Ideas should be submitted to ANES as a Word document by 5pm EST on Friday, April 17. Read more about the request:
electionstudies.org/anes-announc...
JAMES DRUCKMAN “To improve the world for the better, one needs to know the world. Science offers a primary way to rigorously know the world.”
TODAY: Jamie Druckman gives the Miller-Converse lecture at the @umisr.bsky.social, the university's preeminent lecture on American electoral politics. A foremost expert on polarization, Druckman will speak on American distrust in science. @electionstudies.bsky.social
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In Event: Support for Democratic Norms Sat, April 25, 5:10 to 6:40 CDT Got Norms? The Instability of Democratic Norms and their Association with Vote Choice in the US Nicholas Valentino Avery Goods Center for Political Studies University of Michigan
Using ANES 2016-2020 panel data, @NickValentino.bsky.social and #ISRNextGeneration scholar Avery Goods find that democratic norms are largely unstable reflections of partisanship, and, with the exception of media trust, don’t affect vote choice. @electionstudies.bsky.social #MPSA2026
A graphic showing the decreasing Democratic advantage among the general public going back to at least 1952.
In my new report on partisanship, I show movement away from the Democratic Party across a broad range of demographic groups.
Looking back at the ANES, this is just the most recent piece of a *much* longer trend.
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In Event: Misinformation, Misperceptions and Bias Fri, April 24, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT Who knows public opinion? April 23-26, 2026 | #MPSA2026 Carlos Galina Yanna Krupnikov John Barry Ryan University of Michigan Center for Political Studies
📌 Who knows public opinion? @cgalina.bsky.social, Yanna Krupnikov, and John Barry Ryan ran surveys contemporaneously with the 2024 ANES @electionstudies.bsky.social asking individuals to estimate what the ANES would show are the opinions of Dems, Republicans, and the public as a whole. #MPSA2026
Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!
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ANES Announcement: Call for Proposals for the ANES 2026 Pilot Study. You can read more information:electionstudies.org/anes-announcement-call-f...
Deadline is 5pm Eastern, Friday, April 17, 2026.
Have web surveys influenced party identification results?
In POQ, Dyck & Santucci find that, when measured with a forced-choice question option as opposed to a volunteered response, there are many more pure independents than previously thought.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
Are Americans polarized in their attitudes toward higher education? 🤔
Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍
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Several corrections were made to the Cumulative Data File and new data is available for download from the study page.
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Across social media platforms, political posting is linked to affective polarization--extreme users post the most.
As polarized partisans increasingly dominate the conversation, casual users disengage and the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more extreme. arxiv.org/html/2510.25...
I use @electionstudies.bsky.social data from 1972 to model how characters in The Simpsons would have voted in presidential elections
It turns out to be very revealing about how the demographic coalitions of the Democratic and Republican parties have completely rearranged themselves...
The shrinking levels of white ethnocentrism in the
@electionstudies.bsky.social Cumulative Datafile conceal a pretty striking partisan effect: since around 2012 very low ethnocentrism among white Democrats, but the opposite effect among other Democrats.
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A new release of the ANES Cumulative Data File is now available for download. Over 200 variables have been updated to include data from the 2024 Time Series. Visit the study page to download data and documentation:
electionstudies.org/data-center/...
I used the panel release from the @electionstudies.bsky.social to look at how votes and views have changed across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 election. There isn't a lot of analysis here but there are lots of plots and data.
Liberal positions seem to be more consistently held (sort of)
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Thanks to all who have completed our user survey. But if you haven't, don't forget to take it. This feedback will inform our long-term planning. We really would like to hear from you!
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ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
The 2024 @electionstudies.bsky.social has the share of "pure independents" in the US at its lowest level since 1952 (7%)
Graphic: Most Americans say political violence is not justified. Get more data: www.electionstudies.org
So much talk of #politicalviolence in the headlines these days, but what do the ANES 2024 Time Series data say?
There is a decline in reported volunteerism in the newly released data from the American National Election Studies (
@electionstudies.bsky.social).
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These web-based, dynamic applications can be accessed via the Data Tools section of the ANES website.
1. The first tool is the ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior, with >200 graphs displaying the ebbs and flows of public opinion, electoral behavior, and choice in American politics.
ANES 2020 Question: Should federal spending on Social Security be increased, decreased or kept the same? Weighted totals: 55.8% increased, 4.4% decreased, and 39.9% kept the same.
From the ANES 2020: Should federal spending on #SocialSecurity be increased, decreased, or kept the same? Weighted totals: 55.8% increased, 4.4% decreased, and 39.9% kept the same. See the ANES Question Search: electionstudies.org/data-tools/a...
Full release of the ANES 2024 is now available.
The full release of the ANES 2024 Time Series #Data is now available. More details here: electionstudies.org/anes-announc...
ANES question from 2020. The table shows percentages for each response option.
From ANES 2020: Should the federal #MinimumWage be raised, kept the same, lowered but not eliminated, or eliminated altogether? Weighted totals for the responses: 59.8% raised, 31.8 kept the same, 2.7 lowered and 5.7 eliminated. To check out other questions, visit electionstudies.org/data-tools/a...
I have an op-ed in @thehill.com where I argue Dems need a message on corruption in 2028 because @electionstudies.bsky.social data shows voters who think government is corrupt have swung heavily R in the age of Trump.
(Thank you to @scholars.org for help with editing!)
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New ANES data release: A preliminary release of the data from a survey administered to cohabiting spouses or partners of sampled individuals on the FtF and Web is now available as a standalone file.
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@sociologylauren.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in SRE today!
In "Zero-sum or Coalition? A Dyadic Approach for Testing Discrimination’s Impact on Perceptions of Ethnoracial Outgroups" we use perceptions of discrimination to examine racial group relations. Here's a 🧵!
ANES Advisory Board. Last meeting 2025.
The final mtg of the 2024 ANES Advisory Board is in the books. The PIs are deeply grateful for their hard work this grant cycle. Thanks also to the fantastic ANES staff at Michigan, Stanford, Texas, and Duke. It was a productive mtg reviewing lessons learned and talking about the project's future.