Dennis Bonnen

• Job approval data from Speaker Phelan’s first term + historical Speaker approval ratings from the Texas Politics Project data archive

  May 23, 2021 | By: Jim Henson

  While gathering some polling data for revisions I’m making to lecture notes for intro to Texas politics and government courses, I belatedly noticed that we have an unusual amount of job approval ratings for the new Speaker of the House as a result of the increased number of polls we’ve conducted so far this year. 

• Second Reading Podcast: A conversation with James Barragán about the 87th Texas Legislature

  May 18, 2021 | By: Texas Politics Project

• A round-up of Texas leaders’ job approval ratings in the midst of multiple crises

  February 28, 2021 | By: Jim Henson

  The latest University of Texas / Texas Tribune Poll contained our usual complement of assessments of Texas political leaders. In such an eventful historical environment, every polling period now seems to have some kind of major event -- in the artless language of the social sciences, we’ll call it some kind of “exogenous shock” -- and the period during which we collected data for this poll, February 12-19, was no exception, from the ongoing pandemic, the vaccine rollout, the statewide power outages, and some ill-timed travel by some state leaders. This post rounds up find job approval ratings and related results with some brief commentary and, where it seemed interesting, graphics of some relevant cross tabulations or trend data. 

• Dennis Bonnen Approval (October 2020)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Dennis Bonnen is doing as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives? Would you say that you..."

• As pandemic worsens in Texas, Governor Abbott’s job approval slips, ratings of other Texas leaders remain largely static as views of the Texas economy darken according to June 2020 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll

  July 06, 2020 | By: Jim Henson, Joshua Blank

  We released the remaining results of the June 2020 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll today. This post focuses on Texans' assessment of the state's political leaders, the state of the economy in Texas, and the direction the state is headed.

• Dennis Bonnen Approval (June 2020)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Dennis Bonnen is doing as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives? Would you say that you..."

• Speaker Bonnen bangs the big boxes - but who's listening?

  May 04, 2020 | By: Jim Henson

  Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Dennis Bonnen Tweeted himself back onto the radar screens of the Texas political class today with an 11-part thread attacking “our largest home improvement superstores.” There’s no payoff in paraphrasing just how sharp his attack on esteemed institutions in GOP strongholds across the state was today; only direct quotes will do.

• Dennis Bonnen Approval (April 2020)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Dennis Bonnen is doing as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives? Would you say that you..."

• Dennis Bonnen Approval (February 2020)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Dennis Bonnen is doing as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives? Would you say that you..."

• Dennis Bonnen Approval (October 2019)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Dennis Bonnen is doing as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives?"