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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 Ken’ichi Ikeda (University of Tokyo) for help in compiling the reviews.
Al-Jarrah, Abdallah, and Cullingford, Cedric (2007). The concept of democracy: Muslim views. Politics, 27, 16–23.
This article uses a survey of students at a university in Jordan, generally considered one of the more moderate Arab Muslim states, to explore their understanding of the terms ‘democracy’ and ‘terrorism’, and the associations that they raise. Al-Jarrah and Cullingford found, surprisingly, that the students most frequently associated ‘democracy’ with King Abdullah, Jordan's constitutional but still powerful (and unelected) monarch. The next most frequent associations were with ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’ but also with ‘colonisation’
Cantril, Albert H. (2007). Hadley Cantril: Perception, polling, and policy research. Society, 44, 65–72.
Chia-hung Tsai, Ching-hsin Yu, Lu-huei Chen, and Su-feng Cheng (2007). Voting behavior and electoral engineering in Taiwan. Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies, 22, 120–36. (This article is in English)
Goerres, Achim (2007). Why are older people more likely to vote? The impact of ageing on electoral turnout in Europe. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9, 90–121.
Marietta, Morgan and Barker, David C. (2007). Values as heuristics: Voter sophistication in the 2000 Republican nomination contest. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 17, 49–78.
Peytchev, Andy, Couper, Mick P., McCabe, Sean Esteban, and Crawford, Scott D. (2006). Web survey design: Paging versus scrolling. Public Opinion Quarterly, 70, 596–607.
Savigny, Heather (2007). Focus groups and political marketing: Science and democracy as axiomatic? British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9, 122–37.
Van Goor, Henk and van Goor, Annemiek (2007). The usefulness of the Basic Question Procedure for determining non-response bias in substantive variables: A test of four telephone questionnaires. International Journal of Market Research, 49, 221–36.