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Morris P. Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on elections and public opinion with particular attention to the quality of representation: how well the positions of elected...
Finding Common Ground: America Can Do It, Can Stanford?
On Sept. 19, 2019, 526 Americans of all walks of life gathered in a resort ballroom in Dallas, Texas. For the first time in our nation’s history, a statistically representative sample of registered voters — with a near identical distribution of gender, age, income and geographic origin to all registered voters — stood in one room.
What Is Normal? Is Normal Even Possible In These Times?
We hear a lot of talk nowadays about “the new normal” or whether our lives will ever “return to normal.” Maybe it is time for all of us to wake up. There is no “normal.” Not now, and certainly not in the near future.
Making Sense Of The 2016 Election
A few Stanford political experts are gathering in cyberspace to help people make sense of the 2016 election.
Political And Electoral Instability
American politics feels more divided than ever. Are we at an unprecedented point in history? Are there lessons to be learned from prior periods in American politics?
BYU Political Science Professor Suggests Reforms To Balance Party And The Constitution At Lecture
The United States Constitution is incompatible with America’s two-party system, BYU political science professor Jeremy Pope told students in a lecture hosted by the Kennedy Center on Dec. 2.
Analysis: Exodus Of Republican Voters Tired Of Trump Could Push Party Further Right
A surge of Republicans quitting the party to renounce Donald Trump after the deadly Capitol riot could hurt moderates in next year's primaries, adding a capstone to Trump's legacy as president: A potentially lasting rightward push on the party.
Courting the Anxious Cubicle Man
He’s faceless, forlorn, the personification of despair in portrayals from Kafka to “Dilbert..."
Polarization In America: The Role Of Media Fragmentation
Recurrent failures in the U.S. government’s executive and legislative branches to agree on spending during Barack Obama’s presidency resulted in a downgraded credit rating and a government shutdown.
Study: When It Comes To Polarization Across The Globe, America Leads The Way
Researchers seek to understand why America's political divide has grown faster and larger than those in eight other democracies
The Majority-Minority Myth
Identity politics, which supposedly boost the Democrats’ electoral chances, aren’t the sure bet they might appear. Why? Because Americans’ identities are steadily blending into each other.
Why You May Not Read This Column
Only 10 percent (+ or –2%) of American adults get their daily news from either a newspaper or a TV news show. That means the rest of us don’t. And many under-40 Americans are more interested in having fun and being entertained than concerning themselves about global or local news.
A Fact-Based Review Of American Political Theory
Conventional political wisdom tells us the United States is suffering from a hitherto unseen level of partisan strife paralyzing the nation and preventing our lawmakers from solving our problems.
Wanted: Lawmakers Who Shoulder Responsibility
Polarization Is Not the Problem
Since the early years of this century, political commentators have told the American public that the country is coming apart. Although survey data indicates that majorities of the American public believe such claims, a sober look at the data reveals a more complex picture.
Stanford Policy Experts, Professors Unpack Midterm Election Outcomes
Stanford-affiliated policy experts and political science professors gathered in the Hoover Institution’s David & Joan Traitel Building on Thursday to discuss the 2018 midterm election outcomes, voter turnout, gerrymandering and increasing polarization in America’s political landscape.
What Does History Tell Us About 2018?
The Intellectual Origins Of The Trump Presidency And The Construction Of Contemporary American Politics
What Will Biden Do?
The Great Election Fraud
And so it begins again, the never-ending, semi-delusional, train-wreck of an election cycle in which the American people allow themselves to get worked up into a frenzy over the misguided belief that the future of this nation—nay, our very lives—depends on who we elect as president.
How 'Unstable Majorities' Fool Us Into Electoral Fantasies
Where we find ourselves the day after the election is no surprise. Some state results are delayed, as we knew they would be. And the presidential race is very close, as we also knew to expect — or certainly should have known.