| Creators: |
Judd, Charles M. and Van Boven, Leaf and Huber, Michaela and Nunes, Anna P. |
| Title: |
Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate |
| Item Type: |
Book Section |
| Page Range: |
pp. 220-237 |
| Date: |
2017 |
| Divisions: |
Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Abstract (ENG): |
This chapter investigates perceptions of policy and partisan polarization through the use of an interactive histogram procedure (in which respondents were asked to raise and lower bars to reflect what they perceived to be the distribution of the public on some issue). The chapter discusses how respondents handled this task, as well as the reliability of the estimates it provided. Respondents were able to use this novel method to report their perceptions and to do so in ways that were not merely the result of projecting their own attitudes. The chapter then turns to a set of important issues in political perception that these data permit us to address. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
policy polarization; partisan polarization; interactive histogram procedure; political perception; political psychology; histograms; histogram task |
| Citation: |
Judd, Charles M. and Van Boven, Leaf and Huber, Michaela and Nunes, Anna P.
(2017)
Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate.
In:
Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies / Aldrich, John H. ; McGraw, Kathleen M. (Eds).
Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 220-237.
ISBN 9780691151458
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