Public Opinion
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| The Slow Dawn of Climate-Change Awareness, and Its Challenge for a Sustainable Planet In this perspectives brief, author Larry Hamilton summarizes his research on public perceptions of climate change, drawing on a decade of nationwide and New Hampshire surveys.
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Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Climate Change, New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
| Conservative Media Consumers Less Likely to Wear Masks and Less Worried About COVID-19 In this brief, authors Lawrence Hamilton and Thomas Safford discuss the results of a new UNH Granite State Panel survey asking questions to a statewide poll of New Hampshire residents to learn about their perceptions and behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19, New Hampshire | COVID-19, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Why People Move to and Stay in New Hampshire Migration is important to New Hampshire’s demographic future. Traditionally, the state has grown both because of migration into it and because of the surplus of births over deaths. However, recently all of New Hampshire’s population growth has been due to migration.… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Migration, New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
| What Do We Know About What to Do With Dams? In this brief, authors Simone Chapman, Catherine Ashcraft, Lawrence Hamilton, and Kevin Gardner report the results of an October 2018 Granite State Poll that asked 607 New Hampshire residents how much they have heard, and their thoughts, concerning the question of… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Infrastructure, New Hampshire, Public Opinion, Rivers/Watersheds |
| Employment Income Drops in More Low-Income Than High-Income Households in All States Low-wage workers are being hit much harder in the COVID-19 economic crisis than higher wage workers. This is evident in the much greater job loss in lower wage industries than higher wage industries.
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COVID-19 | COVID-19, Employment, Public Opinion, Unemployment, Wages |
| Trusting Scientists More Than the Government In this brief, authors Lawrence Hamilton and Thomas Safford report that despite a dramatic increase in the incidence of COVID-19, and an evolving government response, there was no significant change between surveys taken in mid-March and mid-April in the shares of… |
COVID-19, New Hampshire | COVID-19, Health, New Hampshire, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Views of a Fast-Moving Pandemic In this brief, authors Thomas Safford and Lawrence Hamilton report the results of a Granite State Panel survey (March 17-26), asking New Hampshire residents about their views concerning government responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and whether they changed their… |
COVID-19, New Hampshire | Climate Change, COVID-19, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Ideology Affects Trust in Science Agencies During a Pandemic In this perspectives brief, authors Lawrence Hamilton and Thomas Safford discuss the enormous effect that the extent to which governments and individuals respect the recommendations of science and science-based public agencies is having on the impact of COVID-19.… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, COVID-19 | COVID-19, Health, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Are New Hampshire’s Winters Warming? In this brief, authors Elizabeth Burakowski and Lawrence Hamilton review some basic evidence about winter warming in New Hampshire, explore to what extent state residents are aware of this trend, and ask who is aware, in terms of characteristics such as age,… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Climate Change, Environment, New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
| Facial Recognition and Drivers’ Licenses In this brief, authors Daniel Bromberg, Étienne Charbonneau, and Andrew Smith present the findings of a 2017 Granite State Poll asking New Hampshire residents how they feel about the Department of Motor Vehicles sharing their driver’s license photos with the Federal… |
New Hampshire | New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
