Presidential Campaign Impact on Voters : 1976 Panel, Erie, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles / Thomas E. Patterson.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 7990.

ICPSR ; 7990

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Election--Public opinion.

Presidents.

Voting--United States--Public opinion.

Voting.

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Public opinion.

United States.

Public opinion--United States.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This study's purpose was to assess the impact of a presidential election campaign, particularly the media campaign, on the electorate. In order to do so, a panel survey was administered in several waves to the same respondents over the course of the 1976 presidential campaign year. Two samples of randomly selected adults, one each from the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, California, and Erie, Pennsylvania, were contacted for five personal interviews: in February, before the first primary was held, in April, during the early primaries, in June, during the late primaries, in August, during the conventions, and in October, before the general election. In addition, half the sample was interviewed by telephone after the first televised presidential debate and the other half interviewed after the second debate. Respondents were also interviewed by telephone after the election to determine whether they had voted and for whom. The surveys contained batteries of questions about each respondents's media use, such as exposure to national news, attention to this news, and interest in election coverage in particular. The surveys also provided measures of public orientations that might have been affected by the campaign, such as voting preferences, candidate images, candidate recognition, perceptions of the candidates' chances of victory, and issue salience. Other general information contained in the data collection concerns each respondent's party loyalties, interest in the election, ideology, and personal background.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07990

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

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