The Oxford Handbook of Polling and Survey Methods

Lonna Rae Atkenson, R. Michael Alvarez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

672 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-021329-9 (ISBN)

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The methodologies used to study public opinion are now in flux. The primary polling method of the last half-century, the telephone survey, is rapidly becoming obsolete as a data collection method. At the same time, new methods of contacting potential respondents and obtaining their response are appearing, providing a variety of options for scholars and practitioners. Generally speaking, we are moving from a polling world that was largely interviewer driven over the phone and face-to-face to predominantly interviewer driven self-administered poll environments, New methods of data collection, however, must still deal with fundamental questions to polling methodology and total survey error including sampling, selection bias, non-response error, poststratification weighting, and questionnaire design features.

The Oxford Handbook on Polling and Survey Methods brings together a unique mixture of academics and practitioners, from various backgrounds, academic disciplines, and experiences. In some sense, this is reflective of the interdisciplinary nature of the polling and survey industry: polls and surveys are widely used in academia, government, and the private sector. Designing, implementing, and analyzing high quality, accurate, and cost-effective polls and surveys requires a combination of skills and methodological perspectives. Despite the well-publicized issues that have cropped up in recent political polling, a great deal is known today about how to collect high quality polling and survey data even in complex and difficult environments. Divided into four main sections, the Handbook draws on the existing research and explores data collection methods. It then addresses data analysis and the methods available for combining polling data with other types of data. The next section covers analytic issues, including the new approaches to studying public opinion (ie social media, the analysis of open-ended questions using text analytic tools, and data imputation). The final section focuses on the presentation of polling results, an area where there is a great deal of innovation.

A comprehensive overview of the topic, this volume highlights current polling trends provides ideas for the development of new and better approaches for measuring, modeling, and visualizing public opinion and social behavior.

Lonna Rae Atkeson is a Professor of Political Science, Regents' Lecturer, and Directs the Center for the Study of Voting, Elections and Democracy as well as the Institute of Social Research at the University of New Mexico. She is an internationally recognized expert in the area of election sciences, survey methodology, voting rights, election administration, public opinion, and political behavior. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Golisano Foundation, the Thornburg Foundation, and local, and state government agencies. She has received various awards for her research in election sciences and for her teaching and mentoring. R.Michael Alvarez has taught at the California Institute of Technology his entire career, focusing on elections, voting behavior, election technology, and research methodologies. Alvarez is a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology, co-editor of the journal Political Analysis, and co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. He has received awards for his teaching and mentoring, including twice receiving the Caltech Graduate Student Council's Teaching & Mentoring Award.

Introduction

1. Survey Design

Total Survey Error
Herb Weisberg

Longitudinal Surveys: Issues and Opportunities
Sunshine Hillygus and Steve Snell

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Mode
Lonna Rae Atkeson and Alex Adams

Taking the Study of Political Behavior Online
Stephen Ansolabehere and Brian Shaffner

Sampling for Studying Context: Traditional Surveys and New Directions
James Gimpel

Questionnaire Science
Daniel Oberski

2. Data Collection

Exit Polling Today and What the Future May Hold
Anthony Salvanto

Sampling Hard to Reach Populations: Lessons from Sampling Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
Prakash Adkihari and Lisa Bryant

Reaching Beyond Low-Hanging Fruit: Surveying Low-Incidence Populations, Justinlamazoo College
Youssef Chouhound and Jane Junn

Survey Research in the Arab World
Lindsay Benstead

The Language-Opinion Connection
Efren O. Perez

3. Analysis and presentation

Causal Inference with Complex Survey Designs: Generating Population Estimates Using Survey Weights
Ines Levin and Betsy Sinclair

Cross-National Surveys and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
Jeffrey A. Karp and Jack Vowles

Aggregating Survey Data to Estimate Subnational Public Opinion
Paul Brace

Public Opinion at the State and Local Level
Chris Warshaw

Using Graphical Displays for Presenting Polling Data and Analytic Results
William Jacoby and Saundra Schneider

Graphical Visualization of Polling Results
Susanna Makela, Yajuan Si, and Andrew Gelman

Measuring Group Consciousness: Actions Speak Louder than Words
Kim Proctor

Issues in Polling Methodologies: Inference and Uncertainty
Jeff Gill and Jonathan Homola

4. New frontiers

Survey Experiments: Managing the Methodological Costs and Benefits
Yanna Krupnikov and Blake Findley

Using Qualitative Methods in a Quantitative Survey Research Agenda
Kinsey Gimbel and Jocelyn Newsome

Integration of Contextual Data: Challenges and Opportunities
Armando Razo

Twitter and Measuring Public Opinion
Jonathan Nagler et al.

Expert Surveys as a Measurement Tool
Cherie Maestas

The Rise of Poll Aggregation and Election Forecasting
Natalie Jackson

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	70 line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	183 x 249 mm
Gewicht	1220 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-021329-9 / 0190213299
ISBN-13	978-0-19-021329-9 / 9780190213299
Zustand	Neuware