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Improving public opinion surveys : interdisciplinary innovation and the american national election studies /

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 choice...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Aldrich, John H.; McGraw, Kathleen M.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [2012]
©2012
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Course Book.
Subjects:
Election forecasting > United States.
Elections > Public opinion.
Elections > United States > Public opinion.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Public opinion polls > United States.
Public opinion > United States.
Election forecasting.
Political Science, other.
Political science.
Politik.
Public opinion polls.
Social sciences.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400840298
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781400840298
Index Number: JK2007
CLC: D771.224
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Volume /
Chapter 2. The American National Election Studies and the Importance of New Ideas /
Introduction to Part 2 --
Chapter 3. Self-Monitoring and Political Attitudes /
Chapter 4. Do Confident People Behave Differently? /
Chapter 5 Basic Personal Values and Political Orientations /
Chapter 6. Value Constellations and American Political Life /
Chapter 7. Generalized Trust Questions /
Introduction to Part 3 --
Chapter 8. An Alternative Measure of Political Trust /
Chapter 9. Measuring Political Interest /
Chapter 10. Do We Still Need Media Use Measures at All? /
Chapter 11. Sociotropic Voting and the Media /
Introduction to Part 4 --
Chapter 12. Perceptions of Similarity and Agreement in Partisan Groups /
Chapter 13. Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate /
Chapter 14. Measuring Ambivalence about Government /
Chapter 15. Gender Stereotypes and Gender Preferences in American Politics /
Chapter 16. In Search of a Religious Left /
Introduction to Part 5 --
Chapter 17. Intense Ambivalence /
Chapter 18. Crime, Perceived Criminal Injustice, and Electoral Politics /

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