Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index, Summer 2005

ON THE AGENDA

Will a Delay on the Climate Treaty be Time Well-Spent?

Scott Bittle
Nov 16, 2009

World leaders flatly admitted this weekend what everyone pretty much knew: there won't be a major deal on climate change at the big conference in Copenhagen next month. Instead, leaders will try to keep the process going, in hopes of coming up with a deal next year.

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Listening To Young Americans On The Deficit

Francie Grace
Nov 13, 2009

You wouldn't think the bottom line on the $1.6 trillion federal budget deficit and $11.9 trillion national debt crisis could be summed up in a single sentence, but when the right words whizzed by, the Wall Street Journal's David Wessel was quick to point them out.

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Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index, Summer 2005

Americans Perplexed and Anxious About Relations with Muslim World

Ana Maria Arumi and Scott Bittle, with Steve Farkas and Jean Johnson. Concept by Public Agenda Chairman and Co-founder Daniel Yankelovich

08/07/2005

The inaugural edition of the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index finds the public's concerns are dominated by issues that all lead back to the central theme of Islam and the West. So far, public thinking on this problem is a disquieting mix of high anxiety, growing uncertainly about current policy, and virtually no consensus about what the country might do. In addition, the survey finds the problems of illegal immigration and protecting American jobs in a global economy resonate strongly with the public. A joint venture with Foreign Affairs with major support from the Ford Foundation.

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