eBook

Improving public opinion surveys

McGraw, Kathleen M, Aldrich, John H

2012,2011

Overview

The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. Conducted during the presidential election years and midterm Congressional elections, the survey is based on interviews with voters and delves into why they make certain choices. In this edited volume, John Aldrich and Kathleen McGraw bring together a group of leading social scientists that developed and tested new measures that might be added to the ANES, with the ultimate goal of extending scholarly understanding of the causes and consequences of electoral outcomes. The contributors--leading experts from several disciplines in the fields of polling, public opinion, survey methodology, and elections and voting behavior--illuminate some of the most important questions and results from the ANES 2006 pilot study. They look at such varied topics as self-monitoring in the expression of political attitudes, personal values and political orientations, alternate measures of political trust, perceptions of similarity and disagreement in partisan groups, measuring ambivalence about government, gender preferences in politics, and the political issues of abortion, crime, and taxes. Testing new ideas in the study of politics and the political psychology of voting choices and turnout, this collection is an invaluable resource for all students and scholars working to understand the American electorate.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Affirmative action / African Americans / Ambivalence / Americans / Arthur Lupia / Attitude (psychology) / Ballot / Decision-making / Defection / Demography / Determinant / Dummy variable (statistics) / Election / Election Forecasting / Election forecasting -- United States / Elections / Elections -- United States -- Public opinion / Estimation / Factor analysis / Finding / Gender role / George W. Bush / Government / Histogram / Household income / Ideology / Income / Inference / Ingroups and outgroups / Logistic regression / Measurement / National Science Foundation / Norm (social) / Optimism / Participant / Participation (decision making) / Partisanship / Party identification / Percentage / Political campaign / Political efficacy / Political party / Political philosophy / Political Process / Political psychology / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / General / Political spectrum / Politician / Politics / Prediction / Principal investigator / Probability / Public opinion / Public opinion -- United States / Public opinion polls / Public opinion polls -- United States / Questionnaire / Racial politics / Radio News / Religiosity / Respondent / Response rate (survey) / Sampling (statistics) / Self-monitoring / Self-report study / Shalom H. Schwartz / Social order / Social science / Standard deviation / Statistic / Statistical significance / Survey data / Time series / Trust / U.S.A / Unemployment / United States / Value (ethics) / Voter turnout / Voting / Voting behavior / Welfare
• ISBN: 0691151458, 9780691151465, 9780691151458, 0691151466, 1400840295, 9781400840298