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Peter K. Enns

Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University
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Enns is the Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and co-founder of Reality Check Insights. His research focuses on public opinion and political representation, mass incarceration and the legal system, and data analytics.

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Contributions

The Importance of Shifting Public Opinion about Criminal Justice and America's Prison Boom

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In the News

Interviewed in "Public Affairs with Bob Salter," WFAN, June 24, 2018.
Guest on David Pakman Show, April 28, 2017.
Interviewed in "Episode 5 - The Rise of Incarceration in the U.S.," Wide Angle with Peter Bermudes, August 1, 2016.
Quoted by Max Lewontin in "Why New Jersey Incarcerates More People than Rwanda," Christian Science Monitor, June 16, 2016.
Research discussed by Dylan Matthews, in "Remember That Study Saying America is an Oligarchy? 3 Rebuttals say it's Wrong.," Vox, May 9, 2016.
Interviewed in "Incarceration Nation," Richard French Live, April 1, 2016.
Opinion: "It’s Public Opinion behind Our Crowded Prisons," Peter K. Enns, The Ithaca Voice, March 16, 2016.
Opinion: "Why Prisons Stay Full When the Crime Rate Goes down ," Peter K. Enns, The Washington Post, March 6, 2016.
Opinion: "The Relationship between Public Opinion and Mass Incarceration," Peter K. Enns, London School of Economics, May 21, 2014.
Quoted by Thomas B. Edsall in "Does Rising Inequality Make Us Hardhearted?," New York Times, December 10, 2013.