The Middle Opinion. USA 2020. - Gordon Burt

The Middle Opinion. USA 2020.

1 Introduction and overview
1a Methodology: an underlying distribution approach
1b The meta-issue: to hate or to love?

Part 1 The USA in 2020
2 Opinions in space: the USA presidential election, 2016

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3a The will of the people, 2020
4 Opinions over time: the USA presidential elections, 1789-2016
5 The abstract structure of public opinion: the racism protests 2020
6 The self and the other: national opinions worldwide
7 War, peace and psychology: the correlation structure of opinions.

7a Personality, geography and other social variables
7b Personality, geography, politics and war
8 Optimism: the percentages reported in the media and the middle opinion

Part 2 Satisfaction and democracy
9 Satisfaction with life

10 Middle parties and the M-shaped distribution in political space

11 Satisfaction with democracy
12 Value spaces
Part 3 Optimal social choice
13 Optimal social choice, preference functions: Peter Emerson and Dublin City Council
14 Optimal social choice, value functions: social design, ethics and the amount of value
Part 4 Opinion dynamics
15 A gravitational model of flows in political opinion space, UK 2017
16 The contagion of opinion:
Herd behaviour in markets, polities, cultures and technologies

Part 5
17 Democracy and social progress, worldwide
18 Better world, worse democracy?…

These are drafts and are in the process of revision.

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