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How the Engagement of High-Profile Partisan Officials Affects Education Politics, Public Opinion, and Polarization. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-919
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David M. Houston; Alyssa Barone – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
What happens to public opinion when prominent partisan officials intervene in education policy debates? We analyzed the results of 18 survey experiments conducted between 2009 and 2021 with nationally representative samples of U.S. adults. Each experiment explored the effect of an endorsement of a specific education policy by a high-profile…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Public Opinion, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy
Polarization, Partisan Sorting, and the Politics of Education
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David M. Houston – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Drawing on annual, nationally representative survey data from 2007-2022, I demonstrate that partisan gaps - the average differences in public opinion between Democrats and Republicans - have widened on many education issues. This pattern consistently exceeds what would be expected due to the changing demographic compositions of the parties alone.…
Descriptors: Political Affiliation, Data, Educational Policy, Public Opinion
Polarization, Partisan Sorting, and the Politics of Education. EdWorkingPaper No. 22-690
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David M. Houston – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Drawing on 16 years of nationally representative survey data from 2007-2022, I demonstrate that partisan gaps--the average differences in public opinion between Democrats and Republicans--have widened on many education issues. The growth of the partisan gaps consistently exceeds what would be expected due to the changing demographic compositions…
Descriptors: Political Affiliation, Data, Educational Policy, Public Opinion