Improving Public Opinion Surveys : : Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies / / ed. by John H. Aldrich, Kathleen M. McGraw.

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• MitwirkendeR: Albarracín, Dolores,; Albarracín, Julia,; Aldrich, John H.,; Althaus, Scott L.,; Ansolabehere, Stephen,; Berinsky, Adam J.,; Craig, Stephen C.,; Dolan, Kathleen,; Drakulich, Kevin,; Durante, Ruben,; Fulwider, John M.,; Gainous, Jason,; Gershtenson, Joseph,; Hagan, John,; Hitlin, Steven,; Huber, Michaela,; Judd, Charles M.,; Kramer, Katherine W. O.,; Krivo, Lauren J.,; Krosnick, Jon A.,; Lavine, Howard,; Leege, David C.,; Lupia, Arthur,; Martinez, Michael D.,; Matsueda, Ross L.,; McGraw, Kathleen M.,; Meredith, Marc,; Mockabee, Stephen T.,; Nunes, Ana P.,; Peterson, Ruth D.,; Plane, Dennis L.,; Putterman, Louis,; Rice, Heather Marie,; Sanbonmatsu, Kira,; Schwartz, Shalom H.,; Shani, Danielle,; Snowberg, Erik,; Tewksbury, David H.,; Uslaner, Eric M.,; Wald, Kenneth D.,; Wang, Wei,; Whitaker, Eric A.,; Zigerell, L.J,; van Boven, Leaf,
• HerausgeberIn: Aldrich, John H.,; McGraw, Kathleen M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 24 line illus. 98 tables.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part 1. The American National Election Studies: The "Gold Standard" for Survey Research -- Chapter 1. Introduction to the Volume -- Chapter 2. The American National Election Studies and the Importance of New Ideas -- Part 2. Individual Predispositions -- 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 -- Part 3. Political Orientations and the Media -- 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 -- Part 4. Perceptions of Political Institutions and Groups -- 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 -- Part 5. Political Issues -- Introduction to Part 5 -- Chapter 17. Intense Ambivalence -- Chapter 18. Crime, Perceived Criminal Injustice, and Electoral Politics -- Chapter 19. Attitudes toward the Progressivity of Taxes, Corporate Tax, and Estate Tax -- Part 6. Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions -- Chapter 20. How the ANES Used Online Commons Proposals and Pilot Study Reports to Develop Its 2008 Questionnaires -- Chapter 21. Concluding Thoughts -- Contributors