The Vanishing Center of American Democracy

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Type	Survey
Authors	James Davison Hunter, Carl Desportes Bowman
Publisher	Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation
Date of publication	December 2016
City of publication	Charlottesville

The Vanishing Center of American Democracy, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture's 2016 Survey of American Political Culture, was conducted between Aug. 8 and Aug. 31, 2016 with more than 1,900 Americans taking part. Fielded by the Gallup Organization, the survey examines the contours and depths of American political culture during a contentious and unsettled time.

The survey report was released at an event at the Gallup headquarters on October 12, 2016, which featured presentations by authors James Davison Hunter and Carl Bowman and guest panelists Thomas Edsall and Nancy Isenberg. Watch the C-SPAN 2 coverage of the event here.