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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...
Hoover, Univ. team up to hire faculty
The Hoover Institution has often been portrayed as a think tank isolated from the Stanford community...
Signs Of Nebraska Politics Moving Back Toward The Middle
At the dawn of the 20th century, Nebraskans put up political mavericks like George Norris and William Jennings Bryan. Recently, Nebraskans sent Democrats Jim Exon, Bob Kerrey and Ben Nelson to the Governor’s Mansion and then the U.S. Senate. Like everything, political landscapes change. Today, Nebraska is predominately Republican. In the future, partisanship will shift from right to left, to moderates versus extremists.
Poll Position: After Labor Day
The 2016 Presidential Election.
The Myth Of A Majority-Minority Nation
In 2002, influential political observers John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published a book that helped craft an enduring narrative. “The Emerging Democratic Majority” postulated that ongoing socio-demographic trends worked to the advantage of the Democratic Party. These trends included a growing percentage of ethnic minorities, along with increasing percentages of younger voters, unmarried working women, and the college-educated.
$10 Million Grant from Annenberg Foundation will Establish The `Annenberg Strategic Initiative' Endowment for Hoover Institution, Stanford University
The Annenberg Foundation has granted the Hoover Institution at Stanford University $10 million to establish an endowment fund entitled the “Annenberg Strategic Initiative..."
ELECTION 2006: Eight Days to Go
With polls showing the Iraq war driving many voters' decisions in the Nov. 7 congressional elections, candidates are thrusting veterans -- or their own military service -- prominently into the campaign....
Whom The Democrats Nominate In 2020 Matters-- A Lot
Conventional wisdom about presidential campaign strategy changed around the turn of the current century. Traditionally, candidates were advised to move to the center in the general election campaign after catering to the party bases in the primaries. Not anymore. George W. Bush’s two presidential campaigns exemplify the shift.
The Meaning Of Trump's Election Has Been Exaggerated
The consequences of the 2016 elections are assuredly significant, but the causes of the surprising outcome have been widely exaggerated. Post-election commentary includes words such as “autocracy,” “civil war,” “tyranny,” “fascism,” and “doom.” Fortunately for our country, the use of such words reflects a misperception of the American electorate and how it voted in 2016. This erroneous conception stems from a common tendency to assume that a consequential election only results when a major segment of the electorate intends those consequences.
Koch Bros. Should 'Shut Up And Get With [Trump's] Program,' Says Steve Bannon
Column: Is America More Politically Polarized Than Ever? Not Quite
Who Is To Blame For Polarization In America?
It has been commonly observed that polarization in America has increased greatly in recent years. It is hard to disagree, given the rancorous political discourse we witness on a daily basis between the two major political parties, not to mention among many friends and neighbors. However, it is useful to remind ourselves that the current polarization is not completely new or unprecedented in scale.
The Electoral College
Tis the season—the presidential election season that is. Election officials are busy printing ballots. Pollsters are making phone calls. And candidates, parties, and special interest groups are spending millions of dollars to convince you that one candidate is superior to the other.
Midterm Backlash Will Hurt Democrats But Could Help Biden
The specter of midterm election doom has haunted the Biden administration throughout its first year in office. In general, the party that wins the presidency tends to lose seats in the next congressional election. No one has to remind President Biden of this prospect, given that he was vice president when the Democrats took their very memorable midterm “shellacking” in 2010 — losing 63 House seats (and control of that chamber) and six Senate seats (retaining a narrow majority).
Unstable Majorities
The American public is not as polarized as pundits say. In Unstable Majorities Morris P. Fiorina confronts one of the most commonly held assumptions in contemporary American politics: which is that voters are now more polarized than ever. Bringing research and historical context to his discussion of the American electorate and its voting patterns, he corrects misconceptions about polarization, voter behavior, and political parties, arguing that party sorting—not polarization—is the key to understanding our current political turbulence.
Americans: United or Divided? Hoover Fellow Dispels the Myth of the Culture War
Morris P. Fiorina argues that Americans are actually growing more similar, thanks to air travel and the Internet, which allow people to connect with one another.
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?
The Omnibus
- In the pages of the WSJ, Ed Lazear makes the strongest cases that Obama and Romney can argue about the U.S. economy. The reader can decide: slow recovery or failed agenda?
Data Matters: Keeping the Horse Race in Perspective
Our new series Data Matters continues this week with data from Morris P. Fiorina, a Hoover Senior Fellow and Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
Political activists can poison the debate
Some while back, I proposed a concept that did not stick. I called it "the politics of self-esteem." My argument was that politics increasingly devotes itself to making people feel good about themselves - elevating their sense of self-worth and affirming their belief in their moral superiority.
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. . . .