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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) for help in compiling the reviews.
Butt, Sarah (2006). How voters evaluate economic competence: A comparison between parties in and out of power. Political Studies, 54, 743–766
If voters are to judge between competing parties on the basis of competence, as many apparently do in British general elections, how are they to form their evaluations? While the incumbent government might be judged on their record in office, comparable information is not available for their opponents. After a review of the existing literature and discussion of some hypotheses, Butt uses pre-election interviews from the British Election Panel Studies to model the process by
Campbell, David E. (2006). Religious ‘threat’ in contemporary Presidential elections. Journal of Politics, 68, 104–115
Caprara, Gian Vittorio, Schwartz, Shalom, Capanna, Cristina, Vecchione, Michele & Barbaranelli, Claudio (2006). Personality and politics: Values, traits, and political choice. Political Psychology, 27, 1–28
Eveland, William P., Jr., & Thomson, Tiffany (2006). Is it talking, thinking, or both? A lagged dependent variable model of discussion effects on political knowledge. Journal of Communication, 56 (3), 523–542
Guibernau, Montserrat (2006). National identity, devolution and secession in Canada, Britain and Spain. Nations and Nationalism, 12, 51–76
Katz, Elihu (2006). Rediscovering Gabriel Tarde. Political Communication, 23, 263–270
Moskalenko, Sophia, McCauley, Clark & Rozin, Paul (2006). Group identification under conditions of threat: College students’ attachment to country, family, ethnicity, religion, and university before and after September 11, 2001. Political Psychology, 27, 77–97
Wright, Scott (2006). Government-run online discussion fora: Moderation, censorship and the shadow of control. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 8, 550–568