March 3, 2016
Daniel Yankelovich. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Public Opinion Expert Daniel Yankelovich Endows Multimillion Dollar Fund at UC San Diego Bequest to continue support for the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research, which aims to find solutions to pressing and complex problems that confront our nation In a…
October 29, 2015
…Up UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research seeks to point policymakers to most effective strategies for improving upward mobility in the United States Lane Kenworthy The American Dream is less real than it used to be. On that, the evidence is clear. Incomes have grown slowly for…
October 29, 2015
…Up UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research seeks to point policymakers to most effective strategies for improving upward mobility in the United States The American Dream is less real than it used to be. On that, the evidence is clear. Incomes have grown slowly for all but…
September 16, 2024
…released report from the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UC San Diego offers a rare, direct test of the impact of the party of the U.S. president on Black and Latino economic well-being. The report examines U.S. employment, poverty and median income data over the last 75 years,…
October 15, 2024
A survey experiment with 10,000 Americans demonstrates that even a brief, low-cost message from election officials can help maintain trust when election results are delayed.
September 23, 2021
Pundits around the nation have been calling for overhaul of the century-old rules that govern California’s recall elections, since even before the petition to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom reached the ballot box. Political leaders are now pushing ahead. But what do ordinary voters think and want?
December 15, 2022
According to a national UC San Diego Yankelovich Center Survey after the 2022 midterms: Democrats and independents report greater confidence in our election system, but Republicans do not. Real-world remedies hold promise for restoring trust in U.S. elections.
September 22, 2017
…public opinion expert Daniel Yankelovich spent more than six decades monitoring social change and public opinion. He also left a legacy of supporting research at the University of California San Diego, aimed at improving how people live. Yankelovich died on September 22 at home in La Jolla. He was 92.
May 1, 2023
The Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UC San Diego supports research-practice partnerships that spur public engagement and civic improvements. Co-directors and political scientists Zoltan Hajnal and Thad Kousser discuss the electoral process and the state of American democracy.
September 27, 2012
…and Do; and Dan Yankelovich, a longtime pollster famous for founding the The New York Times/Yankelovich Poll and the Time Magazine/Yankelovich Poll. A program on entertainment and society will follow with UCLA Law School Alumnae Stacey Snider, partner, co-chairman, and CEO of DreamWorks Studios, who is producing Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,”…
