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What Government Patrons want. To compare the different means people use to contact government and the outcomes, survey respondents were asked whether they contacted government in the past year (the year prior to the July 2003 survey), and by what means – telephone, Internet, letter, or in-person visits. For analysis of the subsequent series of […]
Internet users are increasingly turning to e-government sites to carry out their business with government. But Internet users and non-users alike value having more than one way to get in touch with government.
Implications for Policymakers Americans clearly value multiple tools as ways to navigate through their interactions with government. E-government is an innovation in service delivery that many embrace, but people still use other means – most prominently the telephone – to get hold of the government. Using these various tools, Americans tend to be successful in […]
More Internet users are going to e-gov sites than ever. To explore in more detail what Internet users do when they go online for e-government, this survey asked, as the Pew Internet Project has done in the past, whether Internet users had ever looked for information online from a local, state, or federal government Web […]
The place where political messages are reduced to their simplest form, but perhaps also their most enduring, is late-night comedy/talk shows. Here news events that have entered the American psyche are morphed into accepted attitudes and become punchlines. Late night comedy is also a place where some Americans, particularly young people, glean information about the […]
Overview Despite tumultuous events abroad, the public’s news habits have been relatively stable over the past two years. Yet modest growth has continued in two important areas online news and cable news. Regarding the latter, the expanding audience for the Fox News Channel stands out. Since 2000, the number of Americans who regularly watch Fox […]
Summary of Findings Public satisfaction with national conditions has fallen to 33%, its lowest level in eight years, in the wake of revelations of prisoner abuse committed by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. President Bush’s overall job approval rating also has dropped into negative territory: 44% approve of his job performance, while […]
Summary of Findings President Bush’s approval ratings have improved over the month of April even as Americans continue to express strong concerns about Iraq and the way the president is handling that situation. The latest nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center finds 48% approving and 43% disapproving of Bush’s overall job performance. This is […]