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Chapter Four: Political Socialization and Public Opinion
Weblinks
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www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/education/polling
This site offers students a broad discussion of the basics, problems, and opportunities of polling.
www.gallup.org
The Gallup organization has been a leader in political polling for the past 70 years and will likely continue, as it is the true founder of scientific polling.
www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm
As an example of the above, this is a recent report on a Gallup Poll done regarding the Iraq War.
www.cnn.com/Election/2004/pages/results/sites/US/P/00/epolls/0html
This archived poll gathered information from the last presidential election.
www.Harris.org
Around almost as long as Gallup, this polling organization has become somewhat well known for its congressional public and electoral polling.
http://legacy.rasmussenreports.com/2005/NSA
This site contains an array of polls but is limited mostly to topics oriented around national security and the defense establishment.
www.ANES.org
This is a scholarly base polling organization that sponsors routine national level surveys on the state of American public opinion.
www.GSS.org
This site represents another scholarly based polling organization; its methods are deemed not as sophisticated as those followed by the American National Election Studies, but it has a more complete archival set to examine public opinion holistically.
www.govspot.com/categories/pollsandopinion.htm
This site offers an access point to literally "track" tracking polls. It catalogues recent polls from various reputable sources including the major news organizations, polling firms, and even government agencies and sets up links to take you to them for fast comparisons between the polls. What is important to notice is how much variance there is between one poll and another on the same event, issue, or personality. When the variance is low then that means the polls are relatively in line with one another and it increases their predictive power for being accurate when making inferences to popular opinion.
www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/SERIES/00004.xml
The series of polls contained at this site deal with stability and change in American political attitudes regarding U.S. foreign policy, which makes it an excellent research tool. However, it is obviously limited buy the domain of study these pools have contained themselves to, foreign policy.
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