Roberto Stefan Foa

A research programme at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, set up in 2020 with David Runciman, that studies long-run patterns in democratic satisfaction using harmonised cross-national surveys.

Its reports — including the Global Satisfaction with Democracy series, work on youth and democracy, and studies of shifting alignments during the pandemic and the war in Ukraine — have been discussed in outlets including the Financial Times, The Economist, the New York Times, BBC and Reuters, and have fed into UK and European policy discussions.

An independent research institute working on higher-frequency measures of public opinion and macroeconomic conditions, drawing on harmonised surveys, geolocated search and other web-based signals.

Current work includes country monitors for Russia and Ukraine, an early-warning index for Middle East protest activity, and nowcasting pipelines for a small set of national and sub-national economies. Partners include research groups and public-sector users in the UK and elsewhere.