Monthly Archives: August 2011

Methodology for Tea Party findings

August 26, 2011
By tomsander
Methodology for Tea Party findings

The methodology for the Faith Matters survey is included in the paperback edition of American Grace that will be out early in 2012, but here are the basic facts.

The questions we have asked on our survey are are…

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Faith Matters Questions used in “Crashing the Tea Party”

August 18, 2011
By tomsander

 

Questions used for “”Crashing the Tea Party” New York Times Op-Ed by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam

Many readers of the op-ed piece written by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam in the August 17, 2011 issue…

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Dave Campbell explaining Tea Partiers on Chris Matthews’ Hardball

August 18, 2011
By tomsander
Dave Campbell explaining Tea Partiers on Chris Matthews’ Hardball

American Grace co-author David E. Campbell explains on Hardball that Tea Party supporters are much more likely to be conservative socially, ardent Republicans, anti-immigration with coolness towards blacks, and, more than most Republicans liking to mix religion and politics.

The…

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NYT Op-Ed by Putnam/Campbell “Crashing the Tea Party”

August 17, 2011
By tomsander

Flickr photo by ExpressMonorail

An Op-Ed by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, co-authors of American Grace in today’s New York Times is getting a lot of buzz and is the most e-mailed Times story at the moment.

“Crashing…

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Putnam in NYT on debt ceiling and polarization

August 15, 2011
By tomsander

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, in “You Want Compromise? Sure You Do” (Sunday Review, NY Times, 8/14/11) cites American Grace co-author Robert D. Putnam.

Excerpt: THROUGHOUT the debt-ceiling debacle, poll after poll has shown that Americans want politicians in Washington to compromise.

”Americans…

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American Grace wins best political science book of 2010-2011

August 15, 2011
By tomsander

Robert D. Putnam (Harvard) and David E. Campbell (Univ. of Notre Dame) have been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (Simon and Schuster). The Wilson Award of the American Political…

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Putnam and Campbell in WSJ on Islam and Tolerance

August 12, 2011
By tomsander

Note: Paperback edition of American Grace out in January/February 2011 with all new epilogue on the findings of our Faith Matters 2011 religion survey.

Excerpt from WSJ Op-Ed by Putnam and Campbell: “What’s the path to religious acceptance in America—and…

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