May 24, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz, Avi Waxman, Download Report (PDF), While our other surveys have notes things such as party affiliation, gender, and age, the 2016 Chicago Council Survey also differentiated between urban, suburban, and rural locations., Understanding Bo...

October 6, 2016, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Ivo H. Daalder , Karl Friedhoff , and Craig Kafura, Wikimedia Commons, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), Over the past year, Donald Trump has been able to channel the anxieties of a significant segment of the American publi...

March 18, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP, Download Report (PDF), Although a plurality of young Russians say they are anxious about Russia’s political future, few vote or participate political...

May 30, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Candace Rondeaux , Heela Rasool-Ayub , and Deborah Avant, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), Most Americans see military power and security alliances as an effective way to achieve foreign policy goals, but differences em...

March 4, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Lynne Sladky/AP, Download Report (PDF), Unlike their elders, young Americans don’t buy into US exceptionalism and are divided on whether the United States should play an active role or stay out of world affairs., With a diverse range...

August 12, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Libby Berry, J. Scott Applewhite / AP, The public wants to increase the budget for domestic issues like infrastructure and education but is divided over defense spending and foreign assistance., The federal budget is a perennial election issue in...

February 18, 2021, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Brendan Helm, REUTERS, New survey data shows a partisan divide on what Americans believe is the greatest threat to the United States: Democrats rank violent white nationalist groups the highest, while Republicans list China as t...

February 2, 2015, RESEARCH Report by Ivo H. Daalder , Michèle Flournoy , John Herbst , Jan Lodal , Steven Pifer , James Stavridis , Strobe Talbott , and Charles Wald, Jennifer Boyer, Download Report (PDF), This report offers recommendations to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses to deter further Rus...

October 11, 2006, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Marshall M. Bouton , Catherine Hug , Steven Kull , Mike Kulma , Benjamin I. Page , Teresita C. Schaffer , Silvia Veltcheva , Christopher B. Whitney , and Dali L. Yang, Samuel Branch, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), The 2006 Chicago Co...

September 10, 2012, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Marshall M. Bouton , and Rachel Bronson, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), The 2012 Chicago Council Survey tracks public opinion on US foreign policy since the September 11 attacks, and includes an assessm...