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Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Grace Davie, who has a chair in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter and is the director of the […]
Last week’s historic split in the House of Labor was driven, at least in part, by disagreements over whether the AFL-CIO should be focusing more on union organizing drives or electoral politics. Much is at stake, not just for the union movement but also for the political parties. Working class voters are a key swing […]
Thanks to the following individuals for their assistance with and feedback on the survey instrument for the telephone survey associated with this report: Naomi Baron, Ulla Bunz, Eszter Hargittai, Andrea Matwynshyn, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Susannah Stern. Thanks also to Christina Fiebich, Kelli Burns, Lindsay Porter, and Eulynn Shiu for their work on the development […]
Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. Just weeks before the Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito, President Bush’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, the Forum held a discussion for journalists and other policy leaders on the role of religion in the judicial confirmation process. The discussion featured Noah Feldman, a law professor at […]
The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.
About the 2005 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. All surveys are based on national samples except in China, India, Morocco and Pakistan where the sample was disproportionately or exclusively urban. The table below shows the margin […]