Mueller is done with his investigation. His report (in some form) should be released soon. The other week I appeared on the United States Studies Centre podcast 2020Vision to discuss what his public opinion surveys suggest people believe on Russian interference and other issues likely to be important in the 2020 US presidential election, including …
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On the night of 2 July, 2016, following what was a mostly tepid national election campaign, the (then) Liberal Party prime minister Malcolm Turnbull launched a tirade on national television, asserting that the tactics used by the Labor Party over previous weeks had involved ‘some of the most systematic, well-funded lies ever peddled in Australia’. …
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In January 2017, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin orchestrated a campaign designed to harm the electoral chances of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, faith in the US electoral system, and increase political instability in the United States. Since Trump's inauguration, these questions over the extent of …
The United States midterm elections are being held on Tuesday, 6 November. This offers the first nationwide referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump. Presidential elections are held every four years, in conjunction with votes for congress, state governors and other positions. Midterm elections are held half-way between presidential elections (in the middle of a …
This is something I wrote up a while ago but did not get the chance to post here until now. Queensland Senator Fraser Anning’s widely condemned call for a “final solution” to the Australia’s “immigration problem” the other month should not be viewed in isolation. While his rhetoric was stronger than what we’re used to …
Compared to Australia, the United States has a trust problem. Recent polling we commissioned from YouGov, surveying both Australians and Americans, showed Australians consistently reporting higher levels of trust than Americans. It didn’t matter what we asked about — the national government, state governments, family and friends, media, political parties — Australians appear to be …
In September 2017 we launched a new, regular poll in the United States and Australia with YouGov. (By we, I mean those of us at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney). This poll is being run by me, with USSC CEO Professor Simon Jackman, and is intended to track perceptions of …
I have published a guest post on the The Political Organisations and Participation group blog on the same-sex marriage postal vote / "survey".* This post discusses the findings from one of my papers, published in the Australian Journal of Political Science (read the full version) with Andrea Carson and Yannick Dufresne. In this post (and the paper) …
Research undertaken with my colleagues Andrea Carson and Yannick Dufresne has been accepted by the Australian Journal of Political Science, and will be published in a future issue sometime soon (you can read it here)*, we examined whether Australian federal legislators’ policy positions are congruent with public opinion. This paper examines the congruence between the …
I have published a guest post on the The Political Organisations and Participation group blog.* This post discusses the findings from one of my papers published in the Australian Journal of Political Science (read the full version) that discusses how we should view Australia’s major political parties as interest aggregators pursuing specific policy outcomes, rather …
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