What Americans know about their government

What Americans know about their government | Pew Research Center

Take the Pew Research Center civics quiz and find out how much you know compared with the American public.

Americans' Civics Knowledge Drops on First Amendment and ...

Less than half of U.S. adults (47%) could name all three branches of government, down from 56% in 2021 and the first decline on this question ...

Americans' Views of Government: Decades of Distrust, Enduring ...

Americans remain deeply distrustful of and dissatisfied with their government. Just 20% say they trust the government in Washington to do ...

Why do over 7 in 10 Americans lack basic knowledge of how their ...

Ideally, most American citizens would never need to know that a government existed. Government would be restrained to its single legitimate ...

Many don't know key facts about U.S. Constitution, Annenberg civics ...

About one in six people (17%) could not name any branches. A pie chart measuring American's knowledge of the three branches of government.

What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters on JSTOR

Drawing on extensive survey data, including much that is original, two experts in public opinion and political behavior find that many citizens are remarkably ...

New Study Finds Alarming Lack of Civic Literacy Among Americans

Only 46% of respondents believe the U.S. is performing well on the vital need to understand our system of government—a gap of 49 percentage ...

Do Americans know how their government works? - Quora

Given the number of questions asked on this site by Americans who don't bother to actually read the Constitution, let alone any state ...

Americans Know More About Civics, But Numbers Still 'Dismally ...

When researchers asked people if they knew any of the branches of government, 84 percent said they did. But 22 percent couldn't name even ...

What Americans Know About Statehouse Democracy | State Politics ...

Even though state governments are closer to the people, Americans know less about state politics than federal politics, and their knowledge ...

Many Americans know nothing about their government. Here's a ...

Many Americans know nothing about their government. Here's a bold way schools can fix that. · Nearly 4 in 10 (39 percent) incorrectly said that ...

Americans know literally nothing about the Constitution | CNN Politics

* Only one in four (26%) can name all three branches of the government. (In 2011, 38% could name all three branches.) * One in three (33%) can't ...

Americans don't understand their government. They're paying the ...

Research shows that political knowledge regarding basic government principles and operations is surprisingly low in the United States.

Americans don't know much about state government, survey finds

Americans pay their state governments more than a trillion dollars in taxes annually and trust them to handle issues as important as ...

Fewer than half of Americans can name all three branches ... - The Hill

The Annenberg Public Policy Center's annual Constitution Day Civics Survey found a significant drop in the percentage of Americans who could name all three ...

Americans know surprisingly little about their government, survey finds

Americans show great uncertainty when it comes to answering basic questions about how their government works, a national survey conducted by the Annenberg ...

Americans' Civics Knowledge Increases But Still Has a Long Way to ...

The survey, conducted in August by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, finds that 2 in 5 American adults (39%) correctly named the three ...

The U.S. and its government | USAGov

Get facts about the US, its laws, history, and statistics. Buy government property. Learn about the president and how to contact elected officials and federal ...

U.S. facts and figures | USAGov

Learn about the United States, including American history, the president, holidays, the American flag, census data, and more.

Our Government | The White House

The Federal Government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the ...