An Audit of Political Behavior Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4182276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Robison (0000-0002-7472-2247, Aarhus University), Randy Stevenson (Rice University), Randy T Stevenson, James N Druckman (0000-0002-1249-6790, Northwestern University, corresponding author), Simon Jackman (0000-0001-7421-4034, The University of Sydney), Jonathan Ned Katz (0000-0002-5287-3503, California Institute of Technology), Lynn Vavreck (0000-0003-4582-7960, University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2158244018794769 |
| OpenAlex | W2885995741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 37 |
What are the most important concepts in the political behavior literature? Have experiments supplanted surveys as the dominant method in political behavior research? What role does the American National Election Studies (ANES) play in this literature? We utilize a content analysis of over 1,100 quantitative articles on American mass political behavior published between 1980 and 2009 to address these questions. We then supplement this with a second sample of articles published between 2010 and 2018. Four key takeaways are apparent. First, the agenda of this literature is heavily skewed toward understanding voting to a relative lack of attention to specific policy attitudes and other topics. Second, experiments are ascendant, but are far from displacing surveys, and particularly the ANES. Third, while important changes to this agenda have occurred over time, it remains much the same in 2018 as it was in 1980. Fourth, the centrality of the ANES seems to stem from its time-series component. In the end, we conclude that the ANES is a critical investment for the scientific community and a main driver of political behavior research
Centrality · Economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public relations · Sociology · Voting · Voting behavior · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Applied Construction of Concepts in Political Science Beyond the Semantic Approach
Does learning-related social competence in the 1st grade predict academic achievement in the 3rd grade
We Need to Understand the Whole Story”
Rape Myth Acceptance
How performance targets can ingrain a culture of 'performing out
Chinese Medicine sans Chinese
A ResearchGate-way to an international academic community
Associations Between Multiple Health‐Promoting Behaviors and Subjective Well‐Being in High School Age Youth
“She Lied”
Measuring gender differences in elite behavior through surveys versus observation
Why are surveys struggling to estimate vote shares
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation
Differentiation in Protest Politics
Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
How Voters Decide
Political Persuasion and Attitude Change
Citizens, Politics and Social Communication
The Social Citizen
The Economic Vote
Experimental Foundations of Political Science
Promoting an open research culture
Political Ideology
Voting
Who Votes Now?
Online Panel Research
The Message Matters
Hearing the Other Side
The Generalizability of Survey Experiments
Three Eras of Survey Research
Social Media in Public Opinion Research
The Role of Elite Accounts in Mitigating the Negative Effects of Repositioning
Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation
Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research
Survey Experiments with Google Consumer Surveys
Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments
Voter Decision Making in Election 2000
The Causal Effects of Elite Position‐Taking on Voter Attitudes
Source Cues, Partisan Identities, and Political Value Expression
Attacks without Consequence? Candidates, Parties, Groups, and the Changing Face of Negative Advertising
Crowd-sourced Text Analysis
The Responsive Voter
Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies
Social Pressure and Voter Turnout
Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs
The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science
The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |