International Journal of Public Opinion Research Vol. 18 No. 3 © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.
Recent Articles in the Field of Public Opinion Research
Ipsos MORI
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In this section the International Journal of Public Opinion Research reviews articles that have recently been published in peer-refereed journals and which broadly relate to the field of public opinion. The intention is not to give an exhaustive overview of a given study but rather to alert our readers to interesting ideas and research in our field. For this issue thanks are due to Bruce Hardy (University of Pennsylvania) and Kenichi Ikeda (University of Tokyo) for help in compiling the reviews.
Besley, John C. (2006). The role of entertainment television and its interaction with individual values in explaining political participation. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 11 (2), 4163.
In this study, Besley offers a novel theoretical approach to explaining the impact of entertainment television on levels of political participation. Using data from the 2004 European Social Survey (ESS), he presents results that suggest that exposure to entertainment television is associated