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RESEARCH
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CivicPulse is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization generating data and insights about a wide range of issues faced by local and state governments in the United States. Our nationally representative survey panels include elected officials, department heads, and civil service staff representing town, city, county, and state governments across America.

Research Programs

While CivicPulse's surveys and analyses cover a wide range of topics, we bring particular attention to four research programs. For a fuller list of topics CivicPulse has previously covered, please see the topics dropdown in the “All Research” section below.

Election Day
Democracy and
Elections
WIne Turbines
Energy and
Environment
Laughing Work Colleagues
Diversity and
Representation
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Technology and
Innovation

All Research

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Partner Report

American Democracy at the Start of the Biden Presidency

February 21, 2021
Bright Line Watch partnered with CivicPulse to survey 212 local government policymakers from across the country on election confidence to see whether local officials — who played a key role in the 2020 election — were more confident in the integrity of the electoral system than the general public.
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Research Brief

What type of revenue makes a local government most resilient to the pandemic recession?

January 28, 2021
In our previous report based on a May 2020 survey of U.S. local elected officials, we had found that 91% of local governments expected a decline in revenue, with an average expected annual decline of 21.9%. Are there specific sources of revenue that may be particularly resilient to the pandemic?
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Academic Papers

Subnational bipartisanship on climate change: evidence from surveys of local and state policymakers

January 24, 2021
By Nathan Lee and Dominik Stecuła. Published in Climatic Change.
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Academic Papers

Local elected officials’ receptivity to refugee resettlement in the United States

November 28, 2020
By Robert Shaffer, Lauren E. Pinson, Jonathan A. Chu, and Beth A. Simmons. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Academic Papers

More Accurate But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public

November 22, 2020
By Nathan Lee, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, and D.J. Flynn. Published in British Journal of Political Science.
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