Michael W Traugott
Biographic Data
| ID | 209336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Traugott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Traugott |
| SIGNATURE | TRAUGOTT M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4263-105X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1051 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Time-Varying Relationships Between the “Sentiment” of U.S. Public Opinion and News Media
Pollsters and journalists in the United States often make generalized statements about the state of the country, in particular, its “mood” or “sentiment.” The claims often rely on responses to survey questions asking about the state of the country. Little is known about the ebb and flow of this sentiment, however. This paper develops a measure of public sentiment, pooling results of thousands of polls between 2000 and 2021. It then develops an an…
When Pundits Weigh In: Do Expert and Partisan Critiques in News Reports Shape Ordinary Individuals’ Interpretations of Polls
Journalists rely on polls as they cover public opinion. In order to provide perspectives within the news stories, journalists frequently quote pundits – expert and partisan – who evaluate the methodological quality and implications of the numbers. While partisan pundits might attack unfavorable polls as biased and even fake, experts typically provide rational assessments of methodological quality; news readers may also encounter critiques of the …
Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment
Vignettes are short descriptions of real‐life situations that are employed in a survey to assess attitudes and intentions. In many studies, intentions are considered as approximations to actual behavior in real‐life situations. What different applications of vignettes have in common is the effort to adjust the vignettes to the reality of everyday life. Because of this closeness to reality, it is assumed that vignettes are less prone to socially d…
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know
Most recent American presidential elections have had reasonably close outcomes, and twice in the last five we have elected a president through the Electoral College who won only a minority of the popular vote. The 2016 campaign produced one of those results, where Hillary Clinton received almost three million more votes than Donald Trump, but he successfully negotiated the Electoral College with a 77-vote margin. If you are looking for the defini…
When Polls Disagree: How Competitive Results and Methodological Quality Shape Partisan Perceptions of Polls and Electoral Predictions
This study leverages a survey experiment in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election to evaluate how partisan biases, poll results, and their methodological quality interact to shape people’s assessments of polling accuracy and electoral expectations. In a nationally representative sample, we find that individuals disproportionately find polls more credible when their preferred candidate is leading. Partisan biases are mitigated when th…
Presidential Polls and the News Media
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 of underlying predispositions and motivated reasoning. We show, like others, that rumor endorsement can also be a function of individuals’ group attitudes. In particular, among white Americans, birther beliefs are uniquely associated with racial animu…
Motivated Reasoning in the Perceived Credibility of Public Opinion Polls
How do citizens’ motivations shape their perceptions of poll reports? Increasingly, scholars are finding that citizens engage in motivated reasoning, whereby they discredit information that differs from their preexisting attitudes. The perceived credibility of opinion polls might be prone to similar motivational processes, as individuals could discount results suggesting that they hold minority opinions. We assess whether motivated reasoning infl…
New Directions in Presidential-Election Research
Public Opinion Polls and Election Forecasting
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Losing Fewer Votes: The Impact of Changing Voting Systems on Residual Votes
Problems in the 2000 presidential election, especially in Florida, initiated a large-scale shift toward new voting technology. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we report on the effects of changes in voting systems in Florida and Michigan. The variety of initial conditions and the numerous changes make these excellent case studies. We find that reforms succeeded in reducing the residual vote. Every change from old to new technology res…
David W. Moore. The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth behind the Polls
Journal Article David W. Moore. The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth behind the Polls Get access David W. Moore. The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth behind the Polls. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 2008. 196 pp. $23.95 (cloth) Michael W. Traugott Michael W. Traugott The University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 2, Summer 2009, Page…
The Dynamics of Poll Performance During the 2008 Presidential Nomination Contest
This analysis focuses on estimation difficulties pollsters had in the primaries in 2008 in light of recent trends in improved polling accuracy in general elections. We consider the series of polls that were conducted in New Hampshire and other states holding primaries, looking at how the dynamics of the primary contest affected polling accuracy in those contests. The data come from published state-level results of public pollsters from the week p…
Voters' Evaluations of Electronic Voting Systems: Results From a Usability Field Study
Electronic voting systems were developed, in part, to make voting easier and to boost voters' confidence in the election process. Using three new approaches to studying electronic voting systems—focusing on a large-scale field study of the usability of a representative set of systems—we demonstrate that voters view these systems favorably but that design differences have a substantial impact on voters' satisfaction with the voting process and on …
Early Appraisals of Electronic Voting
With the recent troubles in U.S. elections, there has been a nationwide push to update voting systems. States and localities are investing heavily in electronic voting systems, many of which use a touch screen. These systems offer the promise of faster and more accurate voting; however, the current reality is that they have some shortcomings in terms of voter usability. This study examines issues related to the usability of electronic voting syst…
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 controversies. In the end, the final estimates of the preelection polls, the bread and butter of the polling industry, were very good at suggesting it would be a close race, with Bush the likely winner. In historical perspective, the overall performance was above average for the period since 1956. Issues raised in the media leading u…
The Impact of Voting by Mail on Voter Behavior
Most of the studies of voter behavior have dealt with voter turnout, but few have looked at other aspects of voting behavior that could be linked to balloting method. A reasonable amount of information has now accumulated about the impact of the shift from polling place elections to voting by mail on turnout, rolloff, drop-off, differences in voting for partisan offices and referenda, and differences in straight-ticket voting. This article analyz…
The Michigan Senate Race
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Group Cues and Ideological Constraint: A Replication of Political Advertising Effects Studies in the Lab and in the Field
This project seeks theoretical and methodological advances in the study of political advertising effects during election campaigns. On the theoretical side, we hypothesize that racial cues embedded in standard political advertising appeals, involving taxation and government spending, boost opinion constraint by priming global political ideology. On the methodological side, we replicate a lab experiment in face-toface interviews with a probability…
How Americans Responded: A Study of Public Reactions to 9/11/01
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a group of social scientists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) gathered to consider how they might employ their talents to help the country after the shocking events of that morning. The group included economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and survey methodologists. Based upon their previous research experience, each of them proposed hypotheses on asp…
In Defense of Public Opinion Polling
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Who Votes by Mail: A Dynamic Model of the Individual-Level Consequences of Voting-by-Mail Systems
Election administrators and public officials often consider changes in electoral laws, hoping that these changes will increase voter turnout and make the electorate more reflective of the voting-age population. The most recent of these innovations is voting-by-mail (VBM), a procedure by which ballots are sent to an address for every registered voter. Over the last 2 decades, VBM has spread across the United States, unaccompanied by much empirical…
Web Survey Design and Administration
Many claims are being made about the advantages of conducting surveys on the Web. However, there has been little research on the effects of format or design on the levels of unit and item response or on data quality. In a study conducted at the University of Michigan, a number of experiments were added to a survey of the student population to assess the impact of design features on resulting data quality. A sample of 1,602 students was sent an e-…
Assessing Poll Performance in the 2000 Campaign
Journal Article Trends: Assessing Poll Performance in the 2000 Campaign Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 3, November 2001, Pages 389–419, https://doi.org/10.1086/322850 Published: 01 November 2001
Presidential Address
Journal Article Presidential Address: Polling in the Public's Interest Get access MICHAEL TRAUGOTT MICHAEL TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 3, November 2000, Pages 374–384, https://doi.org/10.1086/318002 Published: 01 November 2000
Response Validity in Surveys of Voting Behavior
Journal Article Response Validity in Surveysof Voting Behavior Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Study Director in the Center for Political Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. Assistant Study Director in the Center for Political Studies, The University of Michigan. Portions of the data utilized in this research were made available by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. The d…
Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirability, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring
Journal Article Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirablity, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring Get access ROBERT F. BELLI, ROBERT F. BELLI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARGARET YOUNG, MARGARET YOUNG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K…
The Consequences of Validated and Self-Reported Voting Measures
Journal Article The Consequences of Validated and Self-Reported Voting Measures Get access JOHN P. KATOSH, JOHN P. KATOSH John P. Katosh is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Michael W. Traugott is Senior Study Director in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan Search for other works by th…
Web Survey Design and Administration
Many claims are being made about the advantages of conducting surveys on the Web. However, there has been little research on the effects of format or design on the levels of unit and item response or on data quality. In a study conducted at the University of Michigan, a number of experiments were added to a survey of the student population to assess the impact of design features on resulting data quality. A sample of 1,602 students was sent an e-…
Who Votes by Mail: A Dynamic Model of the Individual-Level Consequences of Voting-by-Mail Systems
Election administrators and public officials often consider changes in electoral laws, hoping that these changes will increase voter turnout and make the electorate more reflective of the voting-age population. The most recent of these innovations is voting-by-mail (VBM), a procedure by which ballots are sent to an address for every registered voter. Over the last 2 decades, VBM has spread across the United States, unaccompanied by much empirical…
Little White Lies and Social Science Models: Correlated Response Errors in a Panel Study of Voting
Journal Article LITTLE WHITE LIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE MODELS CORRELATED RESPONSE ERRORS IN A PANEL STUDY OF VOTING Get access STANLEY PRESSER, STANLEY PRESSER STANLEY PRESSER is professor of sociology and director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Maryland, MICHAEL TRAUGOTT is program director in the Center for Political Studies and professor of communication at the University of Michigan. We acknowledge the helpful comments of th…
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 controversies. In the end, the final estimates of the preelection polls, the bread and butter of the polling industry, were very good at suggesting it would be a close race, with Bush the likely winner. In historical perspective, the overall performance was above average for the period since 1956. Issues raised in the media leading u…
Motivated Reasoning in the Perceived Credibility of Public Opinion Polls
How do citizens’ motivations shape their perceptions of poll reports? Increasingly, scholars are finding that citizens engage in motivated reasoning, whereby they discredit information that differs from their preexisting attitudes. The perceived credibility of opinion polls might be prone to similar motivational processes, as individuals could discount results suggesting that they hold minority opinions. We assess whether motivated reasoning infl…
Preemptive and reactive spending in U.S. House races
Costs and Values in the Calculus of Voting
The primary focus of this study is upon the relationship between the combination of individuals' psychological predispositions and selected contextual factors in their political environments and their relative rates of voter registration and turnout. The design of the study involves an investigation which combines both individual-level and institutional factors which affect voter participation. The results indicate that while convenience factors …
The Impact of Voting by Mail on Voter Behavior
Most of the studies of voter behavior have dealt with voter turnout, but few have looked at other aspects of voting behavior that could be linked to balloting method. A reasonable amount of information has now accumulated about the impact of the shift from polling place elections to voting by mail on turnout, rolloff, drop-off, differences in voting for partisan offices and referenda, and differences in straight-ticket voting. This article analyz…
Using Dual Frame Designs to Reduce Nonresponse in Telephone Surveys
Journal Article USING DUAL FRAME DESIGNS TO REDUCE NONRESPONSE IN TELEPHONE SURVEYS Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Research Scientist in the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT M. GROVES, ROBERT M. GROVES Associate Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
A Review: Exit Polls in the 1989 Virginia Gubernatorial Race: Where Did They Go Wrong
Journal Article THE POLLS—A REVIEW: EXIT POLLS IN THE 1989 VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL RACE: WHERE DID THEY GO WRONG? Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT MICHAEL W. TRAUOOTT is a program director in the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, and professor of communication at the University of Michigan. VINCENT PRICE is a faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, and assi…
Strategies for Predicting Whether a Citizen Will Vote and Estimation of Electoral Outcomes
Risk Perception Mapping: Using Ethnography to Define the Locally Affected Population for a Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facility in Michigan
The concept of a "risk perception shadow" (RPS) has been suggested to describe the geocultural area in which a locally affected population perceives itself to be at risk from a proposed project. Generally such projects involve potentially dangerous substances or activities. The initial conceptualization of an RPS was developed during the social assessment of a proposed Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Michigan. This article describes an ef…
Mass Media in U. S. Congressional Elections
Congressional candidates in the United States run campaigns that are largely independent of national parties and their leaders. The U.S. media are free of party control and decentralized geographically. Many legislative candidates buy time on local radio and television to air campaign ads, and they seek news coverage as well. Incumbents have inherent advantages in these activities, although these are greater in House than in Senate elections. As …
Group Cues and Ideological Constraint: A Replication of Political Advertising Effects Studies in the Lab and in the Field
This project seeks theoretical and methodological advances in the study of political advertising effects during election campaigns. On the theoretical side, we hypothesize that racial cues embedded in standard political advertising appeals, involving taxation and government spending, boost opinion constraint by priming global political ideology. On the methodological side, we replicate a lab experiment in face-toface interviews with a probability…
How Americans Responded: A Study of Public Reactions to 9/11/01
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a group of social scientists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) gathered to consider how they might employ their talents to help the country after the shocking events of that morning. The group included economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and survey methodologists. Based upon their previous research experience, each of them proposed hypotheses on asp…
Assessing Poll Performance in the 2000 Campaign
Journal Article Trends: Assessing Poll Performance in the 2000 Campaign Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 3, November 2001, Pages 389–419, https://doi.org/10.1086/322850 Published: 01 November 2001
Congressional campaign effects on candidate recognition and evaluation
Losing Fewer Votes: The Impact of Changing Voting Systems on Residual Votes
Problems in the 2000 presidential election, especially in Florida, initiated a large-scale shift toward new voting technology. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we report on the effects of changes in voting systems in Florida and Michigan. The variety of initial conditions and the numerous changes make these excellent case studies. We find that reforms succeeded in reducing the residual vote. Every change from old to new technology res…
Voters' Evaluations of Electronic Voting Systems: Results From a Usability Field Study
Electronic voting systems were developed, in part, to make voting easier and to boost voters' confidence in the election process. Using three new approaches to studying electronic voting systems—focusing on a large-scale field study of the usability of a representative set of systems—we demonstrate that voters view these systems favorably but that design differences have a substantial impact on voters' satisfaction with the voting process and on …
The Importance of Persistence in Respondent Selection for Preelection Surveys
Different techniques for respondent selection can affect data quality. These differences can result in variations in the distribution of partisans in preelection surveys, which in turn can have an effect on the distribution of candidate preference. Persistence in trying to interview designated respondents in telephone households increased the number of Republicans in a 1984 sample, and therefore Reagan's margin over Mondale. Such differences in i…
When Polls Disagree: How Competitive Results and Methodological Quality Shape Partisan Perceptions of Polls and Electoral Predictions
This study leverages a survey experiment in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election to evaluate how partisan biases, poll results, and their methodological quality interact to shape people’s assessments of polling accuracy and electoral expectations. In a nationally representative sample, we find that individuals disproportionately find polls more credible when their preferred candidate is leading. Partisan biases are mitigated when th…
Normal Vote Analysis of U. S. Congressional Elections
This study is a district-level analysis of the effects of campaigns on deviations from the normal, or expected, vote in 1978 elections for the U.S. House. The normal vote is derived from national election survey data on party identification in 86 districts, using techniques applied previously to presidential elections. Data on campaigns comes from interviews with campaign managers of the two parties in these districts. The findings show that incu…
Machine-Readable Data Production by the Federal Government: Access to and Utility for Social Research
Peer Reviewed
Response Validity in Surveys of Voting Behavior
Journal Article Response Validity in Surveysof Voting Behavior Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Study Director in the Center for Political Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. Assistant Study Director in the Center for Political Studies, The University of Michigan. Portions of the data utilized in this research were made available by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. The d…
Congressional campaign effects on candidate recognition and evaluation
Normal Vote Analysis of U. S. Congressional Elections
This study is a district-level analysis of the effects of campaigns on deviations from the normal, or expected, vote in 1978 elections for the U.S. House. The normal vote is derived from national election survey data on party identification in 86 districts, using techniques applied previously to presidential elections. Data on campaigns comes from interviews with campaign managers of the two parties in these districts. The findings show that incu…
The Consequences of Validated and Self-Reported Voting Measures
Journal Article The Consequences of Validated and Self-Reported Voting Measures Get access JOHN P. KATOSH, JOHN P. KATOSH John P. Katosh is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Michael W. Traugott is Senior Study Director in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan Search for other works by th…
The Availability of Resources for Public Policy Analysis From the Icpsr
Costs and Values in the Calculus of Voting
The primary focus of this study is upon the relationship between the combination of individuals' psychological predispositions and selected contextual factors in their political environments and their relative rates of voter registration and turnout. The design of the study involves an investigation which combines both individual-level and institutional factors which affect voter participation. The results indicate that while convenience factors …
Strategies for Predicting Whether a Citizen Will Vote and Estimation of Electoral Outcomes
Media Politics: The News Strategies of Presidential Campaigns, by F. Christopher Arterton
Preemptive and reactive spending in U.S. House races
Mass Media and Legislative Contests: Opportunities for Comparative Study
Recent research in democratic electoral systems suggests there are strong possibilities for using both electoral and mass media system characteristics to explain why some legislative candidates are more successful than others at the polls. These effects will vary with the strength of national forces in legislative elections, as well as with the extent of coverage of local races in the media. Prospects for the comparative analysis of the role of t…
Using Dual Frame Designs to Reduce Nonresponse in Telephone Surveys
Journal Article USING DUAL FRAME DESIGNS TO REDUCE NONRESPONSE IN TELEPHONE SURVEYS Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Research Scientist in the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT M. GROVES, ROBERT M. GROVES Associate Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Mass Media in U. S. Congressional Elections
Congressional candidates in the United States run campaigns that are largely independent of national parties and their leaders. The U.S. media are free of party control and decentralized geographically. Many legislative candidates buy time on local radio and television to air campaign ads, and they seek news coverage as well. Incumbents have inherent advantages in these activities, although these are greater in House than in Senate elections. As …
The Importance of Persistence in Respondent Selection for Preelection Surveys
Different techniques for respondent selection can affect data quality. These differences can result in variations in the distribution of partisans in preelection surveys, which in turn can have an effect on the distribution of candidate preference. Persistence in trying to interview designated respondents in telephone households increased the number of Republicans in a 1984 sample, and therefore Reagan's margin over Mondale. Such differences in i…
Risk Perception Shadows: The Superconducting Super Collider In Michigan
The effects of radiation on humans are not clearly understood or agreed upon by scientists. Thus in any situation involving potential risk from radiation, the scientific assessment of facts—"probabilistic risk assessment"—is almost always disputed among experts. The public's assessment of risk—" risk perception"—is made even more complex by the many types of radiation and the fact that radiation is closely associated with controversial issues suc…
Public evaluations of the presidential nomination process
Annual Membership Meeting
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Secretary-Treasurer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 3, FALL 1990, Pages 475–478, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/54.3.475 Published: 01 January 1990
Risk Perception Mapping: Using Ethnography to Define the Locally Affected Population for a Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facility in Michigan
The concept of a "risk perception shadow" (RPS) has been suggested to describe the geocultural area in which a locally affected population perceives itself to be at risk from a proposed project. Generally such projects involve potentially dangerous substances or activities. The initial conceptualization of an RPS was developed during the social assessment of a proposed Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Michigan. This article describes an ef…
A Review: Exit Polls in the 1989 Virginia Gubernatorial Race: Where Did They Go Wrong
Journal Article THE POLLS—A REVIEW: EXIT POLLS IN THE 1989 VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL RACE: WHERE DID THEY GO WRONG? Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT MICHAEL W. TRAUOOTT is a program director in the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, and professor of communication at the University of Michigan. VINCENT PRICE is a faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, and assi…
Little White Lies and Social Science Models: Correlated Response Errors in a Panel Study of Voting
Journal Article LITTLE WHITE LIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE MODELS CORRELATED RESPONSE ERRORS IN A PANEL STUDY OF VOTING Get access STANLEY PRESSER, STANLEY PRESSER STANLEY PRESSER is professor of sociology and director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Maryland, MICHAEL TRAUGOTT is program director in the Center for Political Studies and professor of communication at the University of Michigan. We acknowledge the helpful comments of th…
In Memoriam: Warren E. Miller, 1924-1999
Journal Article Obituary for Warren E. Miller, 1924-1999 Get access MICHAEL TRAUGOTT MICHAEL TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 4, February 1999, Pages 590–591, https://doi.org/10.1086/297873 Published: 01 February 1999
Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirability, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring
Journal Article Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirablity, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring Get access ROBERT F. BELLI, ROBERT F. BELLI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARGARET YOUNG, MARGARET YOUNG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K…
Presidential Address
Journal Article Presidential Address: Polling in the Public's Interest Get access MICHAEL TRAUGOTT MICHAEL TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 3, November 2000, Pages 374–384, https://doi.org/10.1086/318002 Published: 01 November 2000
Who Votes by Mail: A Dynamic Model of the Individual-Level Consequences of Voting-by-Mail Systems
Election administrators and public officials often consider changes in electoral laws, hoping that these changes will increase voter turnout and make the electorate more reflective of the voting-age population. The most recent of these innovations is voting-by-mail (VBM), a procedure by which ballots are sent to an address for every registered voter. Over the last 2 decades, VBM has spread across the United States, unaccompanied by much empirical…
Web Survey Design and Administration
Many claims are being made about the advantages of conducting surveys on the Web. However, there has been little research on the effects of format or design on the levels of unit and item response or on data quality. In a study conducted at the University of Michigan, a number of experiments were added to a survey of the student population to assess the impact of design features on resulting data quality. A sample of 1,602 students was sent an e-…
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