Research Publications

The Public Wise Research & Education Fund conducts nonpartisan, nonprofit, polling and research to fill the gaps in voter and voting rights research to complement ongoing studies being conducted by others in the field.

Unaccountable Sheriff Elections Provide Fertile Ground For A Growing Anti-Democratic Police Movement in Arizona

This post examines how the Constitutional Sheriffs movement in Arizona fuels anti-democratic practices, influences election denialism, and highlights the dangers of unchecked sheriff power.
AccountabilityPolicing and Democracy

Public Wise and Change Research Survey of Views on Election Deniers and Democracy

Democracy

Who is elected in law enforcement?

Part 1 of the Public Wise series on Policing and Democracy
DemocracyPolicing and Democracy

Corroding Democracy and the Roe Rollback: How Geographic Disparities in Representation Shape US Policy Outcomes

DemocracyGerrymandering

Democracy on the Ballot: Voters’ intentions and actions in battleground states in the midterm elections

AccountabilityJanuary 6th

News Sources and Views on January 6th: Media Consumption in Six Battleground States

Public Wise Research report on news sources and views on January 6th in six battleground states.
AccountabilityJanuary 6th

Where do voters in battleground states get their news?

Accountability

Battleground State Voters’ Reactions to January 6th Hearings

AccountabilityJanuary 6th

January 6th Survey Dropouts

Public Wise investigates who dropped out of the January 6th Accountability Survey and discusses why missing data should be treated as data rather than discarded.
Research MethodologyJanuary 6th

Anti-Establishment Views and January 6th

AccountabilityJanuary 6th