International Journal of Public Opinion Research articles from December 1997

International Journal of Public Opinion Research archives from December 1997

Education for democracy in Argentina: effects of a newspaper-in-school program.
December 22, 1997... The process of redemocratization in Latin America since the early 1980s has sparked considerable interest in ways to consolidate democratic institutions in the region. Particular attention is being paid to citizenship education, as scholars...

Opinion quality in public opinion research.
December 22, 1997... Since the inception of scientific study of public opinion, survey researchers and democratic theorists alike have pondered the central concept of public opinion and its relationship to mass survey data. Classical theorists of public opinion...

The influence of gender on public attitudes toward homosexual rights in Britain.
December 22, 1997... Since the 1980s, the issue of homosexual rights and practices has generated increasing controversy and political activity in Great Britain. For example, in 1988, the British Parliament enacted a Local Government Bill, to which an amendment...

Interaction characteristics of the difficult-to-interview respondent.
December 22, 1997... In a recent book Thinking About Questions (Sudman, Bradburn and Schwarz, 1996), the authors consider answering a survey question as a rather complex task. Interpreting the question to understand its meaning, retrieving information, generating...

Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics.
December 22, 1997... Ed Rollins with Tom DeFrank, New York, Broadway Books, 1996. The memories of political actors are invaluable resources for scholars of political science and communication. Frequently we interview elected officials, and their pollsters and...

Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties.
December 22, 1997... Dick Morris, New York, Random House, 1997. The memories of political actors are invaluable resources for scholars of political science and communication. Frequently we interview elected officials, and their pollsters and consultants, but all...