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About the ProjectThe Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy (the Project) seeks to enhance Americans’ capacity for civic engagement by supporting the rule of law as we advocate for adjudicating disagreements through relevant facts and data. Evidence, as opposed to unfounded assertions, enriches the national conversation and serves as… Read More

The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy’s VUI measures the level and amount of change in Americans’ faith and trust in democracy.   In the first quarter of 2023, the Vanderbilt Unity Index increased almost half a percentage point, driven by a decrease in the number of… Read More

Students from seven Tennessee colleges and universities submitted poems exploring “What unity through American democracy means to me” for the second annual poetry contest sponsored by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy in partnership with Vanderbilt University’s English department and MFA Program in… Read More

Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy releases results measuring Americans’ unity, beliefs on government and democracy  The results of the first Vanderbilt Unity Poll, released today, show that 52 percent of MAGA-identifying Republicans believe Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a better president than Joe Biden. … Read More

The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy’s latest Vanderbilt Unity Index, a quarterly measurement of Americans’ general faith and trust in democracy, remained largely stable for a third consecutive quarter, even through the heated rhetoric surrounding the 2022 midterm elections. Today, the Unity Project released the 2022 fourth-quarter Vanderbilt… Read More

Listen on Spotify Listen on Amazon Music Listen on Google Podcasts  Unity Talks, produced by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, is a podcast featuring a series of conversations and… Read More

The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy’s newly released data from the Vanderbilt Unity Index, which measures Americans’ general faith and trust in democracy, shows little change from the second to the third quarter of 2022.   For the second quarter in a row, the Vanderbilt… Read More

As midterm elections near, the ever-changing outlook on the U.S. economy remains at the forefront of voters’ minds. Cutting through the clutter of competing political punditry to uncover an evidence-based understanding of the country’s current economic state remains a challenge.  To that end, the Vanderbilt Project… Read More