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The real Trump mystery

The real Trump mystery

Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication says that political polarization is the engine of “crystallization,” where people’s attitudes won’t be swayed no matter what new information they get.

Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides
HOPE painted colorfully on the exterior of the Hazelton Integration Project.

(On homepage) The Political Empathy Lab visited the Hazleton Integration Project, a nonprofit and community center serving a city that has seen a large increase in Dominican immigrants over the past two decades.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn’s Political Empathy Lab)

Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides

Through the SNF Paideia Program, seven undergraduates and political scientist Lia Howard traveled all over the commonwealth this summer, listening to residents talk about their lives and the issues that matter to them.
Public opinion research in changing times
A graph indicating public opinion polling.

Image: Ikon Images via AP Images

Public opinion research in changing times

In a Q&A, William Marble of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies talks about how PORES has had to adjust to the series of rapidly changing events in the presidential race and to longer-standing shifts in public opinion research methodologies.
Michael C. Horowitz returns as director of Perry World House
Micheal Horowitz.

Michael Horowitz is the director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Political Science.

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Michael C. Horowitz returns as director of Perry World House

Horowitz resumed the leadership of Perry World House on August 14, overseeing work on security, defense, and emerging technologies.