As the U.S. copes with multiple crises, partisans disagree sharply on severity of problems facing the nation
Democrats are generally far more likely than Republicans to view several concerns, including COVID-19, as very big problems in the country.
Audience engagement with legislators’ posts has generally increased over the past five years. But that engagement has also varied significantly as events unfolded and shaped the broader political climate. By tracking notable day-over-day increases in engagement for the typical Democratic and Republican member of Congress, Pew Research Center researchers identified a number of events that […]
Classifying parties as populist Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: anti-elite ratings from the 2017 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES), Inglehart and Norris’s populism party scale and The PopuList. We define a party as […]