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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...
Morris P. Fiorina examines the myth of a polarized America
Hoover senior fellow Morris Fiorina examines the myth of a polarized America with Hoover deputy director David Brady. The general public is often portrayed as bitterly divided on social, political, and economic issues, but new research shows that most Americans stand in the middle of the political landscape, preferring centrist candidates and holding moderate positions on charged cultural issues. It is the political parties and the media that have ignored this fact and distorted public perceptions.
Morris P. Fiorina appointed Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
The Not So Big Conservative Base
Stanford’s Morris Fiorina, one of America’s leading political scientists, has published a new book titled, Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics. . . .
Hoover's Fiorina discusses Santorum's rise and a dissatisfied Republican Party
Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, notes that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s surge in popularity among voters nationwide reflects the continuing dissatisfaction on the part of the Republican base with Romney. Ordinary people can imagine having a drink with some of these people but not Romney. He's like Al Gore and Michael Dukakis in that respect.
Brady, Fiorina, and Frisby on American politics and the 2012 election
“Nearly everything you read about [political] polarization . . . is wrong, or at least incomplete or misinterpreted,” remarked Hoover senior fellow Morris Fiorina. Fiorina, along with David Brady, deputy director and Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Tammy Frisby, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, sat down the day after the Florida primary to talk about American politics and the 2012 election. Stepping back from the blow-by-blow coverage of the presidential campaigns, Brady, Fiorina, and Frisby discuss how underlying conditions and both continuity and change in American politics are shaping the Republican primary, the prospects for the November 2012 general election, and races for seats in the 113th Congress.
Area 45: The Divided States Of America
The 2016 Election: Partisan or Cultural Divide?
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. . . .
The Left’s Purity Test?
Erick Erickson poses a direct question to me at RedState.com this morning. . . .
Polarized Pols Versus Moderate Voters?
A scholar disputes the notion that the American electorate is deeply polarized. . . .
The GOP's Best Weapon in 2010
Inclement political weather rocked President Obama and his party this summer...
Why Washington Can’t Get Much Done
Members of Congress — with the possible exceptions of Senator Robert C. Byrd and Representative John D. Dingell — come and go...
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.
Fight Club
While the political parties duke it out over divisive social issues, the majority of Americans remain steadfastly in the middle. . . .
Brown poised for massive upset
Polls across the board show Republican Scott Brown about to take the Massachusetts Senate seat that has been in the Kennedy clan since JFK. . . .
America's vaunted 'culture war' is a mock battle
As the nation's attention reluctantly turns to the political parties' conventions, with their scripted suspense and stage-managed sentiment, it is important to keep in mind that these are phony representations of American political life...
Stanford professor debunks political polarization in Tempe campus lecture
The notions of a politically discordant and ideologically polarized American public that dominate American news media outlets are flawed and unfounded, a visiting political science professor said Thursday in a Tempe campus lecture. . . .
Nasty rhetoric could backfire on bill's foes
The verbal nastiness that has shadowed the health care reform debate peaked as the bill rumbled to a finish, with opponents shouting racial epithets and spitting at members of the Congressional Black Caucus while yelling anti-gay slurs at Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. . . .
Has Partisanship Really Gotten So Bad On Hill? Yes
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh says his stunning decision not to seek a third term was prompted by the partisanship that has gripped the nation's capital, stunting progress on the country's most pressing issues. . . .