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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...
Overcoming Our Crisis Of Confidence In Democracy
Western democracies overcame a crisis of confidence decades ago. Can do they it again?
The Second Era Of No Decision
How stagnation, inequality, and immigration create unstable majorities.
Brady and Fiorina discuss the 2010 elections
The View From Asia: If Only Michael Bloomberg Had Run
The presidential race looks different viewed from Asia. According to my Hoover Institution colleague Morris Fiorina, the binary character of US politics has become an anachronism in a world where nearly all democracies have become multiparty systems. Even Britain, the birthplace of Whigs and Tories, has followed this trend.
On Messaging: An Interview With J. Scott Jennings
Data Matters: Keeping the Horse Race in Perspective
The US Electorate: Shifting Majorities, Polarization, and the 2014 Elections
Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at Hoover, discusses US politics, polarization, and the 2014 midterm elections.
Moderate Voters, Polarized Parties
[Subscription Required] The author of ‘Unstable Majorities’ argues that if the electorate seems fickle, it’s because the politicians are too ideological.
Poll Position: Presidential Polls After The 2016 Conventions
Both presidential candidates received a bump in the polls after their conventions.
Area 45: The Divided States Of America
The 2016 Election: Partisan or Cultural Divide?
Why Issue-Based Strategies Won’t Help Trump Win Re-Election
The US presidential election on 3 November will be watched closely in Europe. Drawing on recent survey evidence, Davide Angelucci, Lorenzo De Sio, Morris P. Fiorina and Mark N. Franklin illuminate the challenge facing Donald Trump in his bid for re-election. There are currently no divisive issues on which Trump stands to win more support from independents and Democrats than he stands to lose from his own support-base, while on issues for which goals are widely shared, Trump lacks credibility compared to Joe Biden.
Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
The health care bill may be passed, but the road to reform certainly painted a polarizing picture of America.
Democracy's demolition derby
It's been an education, my four decades in Washington journalism: an anniversary that prompts this personal reflection. . . .
FF Symposium: Where’s the Vital Center?
The term the “vital center” was coined of course by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 60 years ago. . . .
Gay Marriage and the Governor's Race
State Senator Bill Brady, the Republican gubernatorial nominee-in-waiting, recently proposed five amendments to the Illinois Constitution. . . .
Views on 'big government' may shape election outcome
Tea Party movement, nation's financial woes cast Washington in bad light...
Bye-bye, Bayh
SEN. EVAN BAYH, D-Ind., dropped a bombshell in Washington when he announced on Monday that he would not run for re-election. . . .
Independents setting the political pace
Forget the red-state, blue-state construct. . . .
The Left’s Purity Test?
Erick Erickson poses a direct question to me at RedState.com this morning. . . .
The Limitations of Thinking About Red and Blue America
I want to respond to the points raised so far, but first I want to point out how irrelevant the red/blue divisions are to much of politics...