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How do politicians respond to opinion polls? An experiment with Swedish politicians
Research & Politics, 2020 Do politicians demand change if party support is slipping in opinion polls? If so, should a party change its program or just the way it communicates with voters? To investigate this, we conducted a survey experiment with 1236 Swedish politicians.
Gijs Schumacher, Patrik Öhberg
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Are public opinion polls self-fulfilling prophecies?
Research & Politics, 2014 Psychologists have long observed that people conform to majority opinion, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the ‘bandwagon effect’. In the political domain people learn about prevailing public opinion via ubiquitous polls, which may produce a ...
David Rothschild, Neil Malhotra
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World Political Science, 2016 Similar to all other types of information, public opinion polls can influence public opinion. We present two hypotheses to understand how polls affect public opinion: the bandwagon and the underdog effect. The bandwagon effect claims that voters “jump on
Jens Olav Dahlgaard +2 more
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Public opinion exists, but is it always detectable? [PDF]
Соціологія, 2022 The article examines the problem of the reliability of the results of public opinion polls, taking into account the fact that the respondents’ answers, due to various reasons, do not always reflect their true opinion.
Mykhailo Mishchenko
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A Tricky Subject – archaeology in opinion polls on cultural heritage. Recent examples from Poland
Internet Archaeology, 2021 Understanding the public by analysing the wants, interests and expectations regarding their involvement in archaeology is one of the strategic aims of Europae Archaeologiae Consilium (EAC).
Agnieszka Oniszczuk
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SAGE Open, 2023 This study focuses on the influence of public perceptions of political opinion polls on people’s voting behavior in Mwanza city and the role of Tanzanian media in creating awareness about political opinion polls. The study uses a descriptive paradigm and
Samwel Mwita Gasuku
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Presidential Term Limits and Regime Types: When Do Leaders Respect Constitutional Norms?
Africa Spectrum, 2020 Why do some leaders respect constitutional provisions like presidential term limits, while others do not? For all regimes, constitutions are important reference texts that provide some basic rules of the game.
Anja Osei +2 more
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PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF MASS OPINION POLLS
Вісник НЮУ імені Ярослава Мудрого: Серія: Філософія, філософія права, політологія, соціологія, 2023 In the twenty-first century, there is a significant crisis in electoral procedures, which is manifested in a decline in confidence in them. It coincided with a crisis in the survey technology of public opinion research, which is manifested in a decrease
Olena Volianska
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Indian Perceptions of the US: A Study of Indian Surveys and Public Opinion
Journal of Contemporary Politics, 2022 The Indian public has traditionally had very little say in the making of foreign policy. However, they do have views on foreign policy and the media and elites play an important role in influencing them.
Uma Purushothaman
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In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models
Big Data & Society, 2022 This article seeks to address current debates comparing polls and opinion mining as empirically based figuration models of public opinion in the light of in-depth intellectual debates on the role and nature of public opinion that began after the French ...
Slavko Splichal
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