Politics and Elections
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Carsey Perspectives: Water Concerns Unite Citizen Activists This study focuses on an instance of sustained local activism in which citizens in three New Hampshire communities mobilized to protect community groundwater against threats from commercial use. Beginning in 2001, despite strong citizen opposition, state-issued… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Community, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Rivers/Watersheds |
| Was December Warm? In 2015 New Hampshire experienced its warmest December on record. The temperature exceeded twentieth century average temperatures by a wider margin than for any month in historical records dating back to 1895. In February 2016, as part of an ongoing… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Climate Change, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion, Trust |
| First in the Nation More than half a million people are expected to participate in the New Hampshire 2016 Presidential Primary. The time-honored symbol of the primary is the laconic Yankee with deep ancestral roots in the state, who dismisses fourth-generation residents as newcomers.… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Demography, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections |
| Carsey Perspectives: Polling and the New Hampshire Primary As of this writing, the New Hampshire primary is scheduled to take place in just about two months—on Tuesday, February 9, just eight days after the first nomination contest, the Iowa caucuses. Numerous polls have already told us what the voters are contemplating “if… |
New Hampshire | New Hampshire, Politics and Elections |
| Trump and Sanders Supporters Differ Sharply on Key Scientific Fact During the week of September 17–23, a WMUR/CNN poll by the UNH Survey Center1 asked more than 700 New Hampshire residents who they would vote for, given hypothetical pairs of candidates. For example, Suppose the 2016 presidential election was being… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Conservative and Liberal Views of Science Conservative distrust of scientists regarding climate change and evolution has been widely expressed in public pronouncements and surveys, contributing to impressions that conservatives are less likely to trust scientists in general. But what about other topics,… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Climate Change, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Red Rural, Blue Rural Political commentators routinely treat rural America as an undifferentiated bastion of strength for Republicans. In fact, rural America is a deceptively simple term describing a diverse collection of places encompassing nearly 75 percent of the U.S. land area and 50… |
Demography | Demography, Politics and Elections, Rural |
| Do You Trust Scientists About the Environment? In this brief, author Lawrence Hamilton examines the results of a Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center in late January–early February 2014. The poll asked about public trust in scientists, along with other questions on science… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Climate Change, Environment, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Granite Staters Weigh in on Renewable Energy Versus Drilling: Environmental Quality of Life Ranks High Across Party Lines Since the fall of 2001, the University of New Hampshire’s Survey Center has been conducting the Granite State Poll—a statewide, scientific survey of public opinion and behavior concerning policy issues—via telephone interviews with random samples of New Hampshire… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Environment, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Changes in New Hampshire’s Republican Party: Evolving Footprint in Presidential Politics, 1960-2008 This brief describes a series of dramatic changes in New Hampshire's political landscape over the past four decades. Examining presidential elections from 1960 to 2008, author Dante Scala uncovers a series of significant shifts in New Hampshire's political… |
New Hampshire | New Hampshire, Politics and Elections |
