Search Results for: Improving Public Opinion Surveys

The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. Conducted during the presidential el

How well can polls measure public opinion? Should government policies follow majority opinion? Do polls influence elections? Can there be polls under a dictator

First Published in 1990. The decade of the 1980s witnessed an increasing use of polls and surveys as well as an expanded research effort into public opinion pol

In a rigorous critique of public opinion polling in the U.S., George F. Bishop makes the case that a lot of what passes as "public opinion" in mass media today

Although information from public opinion polls is ubiquitous wielded by political candidates, the media, and all kinds of organizations hoping to prove a point