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Reducing vote overreporting in surveys : Social desirability, memory failure, and source monitoring
One of the most frequently observed survey measurement errors is theoverreporting of voting behavior. Almost since the series of AmericanNational Election Studies (NES) began, the level of survey…
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What Leads to Voting Overreports? Contrasts of Overreporters to Validated Voters and Admitted Nonvoters in the American National Election Studies
A Review and Proposal for a New Measure of Poll Accuracy
This article proposes a new measure of the predictive accuracy (A) of election polls that permits examination of both accuracy and bias, and it applies the new measure to summarize the results of a…
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Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot
Voting difficulties hung over America's presidential election in 2000 like a dark cloud. Hanging chads, a butterfly ballot, and the Supreme Court remain the most vivid memories of that political…
The SAGE Handbook of Public Opinion Research
PART ONE: HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY OF PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH The Public and Public Opinion in Political Theories - Vincent Price The Deliberating Public and Deliberative Polls - Peter…
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The Genesis of the Birther Rumor: Partisanship, Racial Attitudes, and Political Knowledge
A growing body of work has examined the psychological underpinnings of conspiracy theory endorsement, arguing that the propensity to believe in conspiracy theories and political rumors is a function…
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Motivated reasoning in the perceived credibility of public opinion polls
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Response Validity in Surveysof Voting Behavior
This paper presents the results of a project which validated the reported registration and voting behavior of respondents in a national election study. The accuracy of reported voting behavior in the…
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The Consequences of Validated and Self-Reported Voting Measures
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The Accuracy of the National Preelection Polls in the 2004 Presidential Election
The 2004 presidential election campaign provided a venue for a wide variety of polling, and it was not without its controver- sies. In the end, the final estimates of the preelection polls, the bread…
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