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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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Academic Papers

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

November 27, 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 21, 2020
By Nathan Lee, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, and D.J. Flynn. Published in British Journal of Political Science.
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Research Brief

Latest findings on the gender gap in local government

November 1, 2020
While well documented among elected officials at higher levels, far less is known about gender representation in local government
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Research Report

Patterns of Local Protest against COVID-19 Restrictions across America

October 19, 2020
CivicPulse, in collaboration with Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, surveyed over 350 heads of local law enforcement agencies to find out where anti-lockdown protests were most common last spring. These findings could help predict where we might see them again this winter.
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Research Report

The Role of Software in Local Government

August 25, 2020
In this report, we investigate the role of new software in local government, bringing to bear original data and analysis from a national survey of ten different leadership positions in township, municipality, and county governments all over the United States, including top appointed executives, heads of IT, and heads of 8 different types of departments/functions.
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