- Title Pages
- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Volume
- Chapter 2 The American National Election Studies and the Importance of New Ideas
- Part 2 Individual Predispositions
- Chapter 3 Self-Monitoring and Political Attitudes
- Chapter 4 Do Confident People Behave Differently?
- Chapter 5 Basic Personal Values and Political Orientations
- Chapter 6 Value Constellations and American Political Life
- Chapter 7 Generalized Trust Questions
- Part 3 Political Orientations and the Media
- Chapter 8 An Alternative Measure of Political Trust
- Chapter 9 Measuring Political Interest
- Chapter 10 Do We Still Need Media Use Measures at All?
- Chapter 11 Sociotropic Voting and the Media
- Part 4 Perceptions of Political Institutions and Groups
- Chapter 12 Perceptions of Similarity and Agreement in Partisan Groups
- Chapter 13 Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate
- Chapter 14 Measuring Ambivalence about Government
- Chapter 15 Gender Stereotypes and Gender Preferences in American Politics
- Chapter 16 In Search of a Religious Left
- Part 5 Political Issues
- Chapter 17 Intense Ambivalence
- Chapter 18 Crime, Perceived Criminal Injustice, and Electoral Politics
- Chapter 19 Attitudes toward the Progressivity of Taxes, Corporate Tax, and Estate Tax
- Chapter 20 How the ANES Used Online Commons Proposals and Pilot Study Reports to Develop Its 2008 Questionnaires
- Chapter 21 Concluding Thoughts
- Contributors
Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate
Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate
- Chapter:
- (p.220) Chapter 13 Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate
- Source:
- Improving Public Opinion Surveys
- Author(s):
Charles M. Judd
Leaf Van Boven
Michaela Huber
Ana P. Nunes
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
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.
Keywords: policy polarization, partisan polarization, interactive histogram procedure, political perception, political psychology, histograms, histogram task
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- Title Pages
- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Volume
- Chapter 2 The American National Election Studies and the Importance of New Ideas
- Part 2 Individual Predispositions
- Chapter 3 Self-Monitoring and Political Attitudes
- Chapter 4 Do Confident People Behave Differently?
- Chapter 5 Basic Personal Values and Political Orientations
- Chapter 6 Value Constellations and American Political Life
- Chapter 7 Generalized Trust Questions
- Part 3 Political Orientations and the Media
- Chapter 8 An Alternative Measure of Political Trust
- Chapter 9 Measuring Political Interest
- Chapter 10 Do We Still Need Media Use Measures at All?
- Chapter 11 Sociotropic Voting and the Media
- Part 4 Perceptions of Political Institutions and Groups
- Chapter 12 Perceptions of Similarity and Agreement in Partisan Groups
- Chapter 13 Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate
- Chapter 14 Measuring Ambivalence about Government
- Chapter 15 Gender Stereotypes and Gender Preferences in American Politics
- Chapter 16 In Search of a Religious Left
- Part 5 Political Issues
- Chapter 17 Intense Ambivalence
- Chapter 18 Crime, Perceived Criminal Injustice, and Electoral Politics
- Chapter 19 Attitudes toward the Progressivity of Taxes, Corporate Tax, and Estate Tax
- Chapter 20 How the ANES Used Online Commons Proposals and Pilot Study Reports to Develop Its 2008 Questionnaires
- Chapter 21 Concluding Thoughts
- Contributors