Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s
Studies of mass political attitudes and behavior before the 1950s have been limited by a lack of high-quality, individual-level data. Fortunately, data from public opinion polls conducted during the late New Deal and World War II periods are available, although the many difficulties of working with...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| author | Berinsky, Adam Powell, Eleanor Neff Schickler, Eric |
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| description | Studies of mass political attitudes and behavior before the 1950s have been limited by a lack of high-quality, individual-level data. Fortunately, data from public opinion polls conducted during the late New Deal and World War II periods are available, although the many difficulties of working with these data have left them largely untouched for over 60 years. We compiled and produced readily usable computer files for over 400 public opinion polls undertaken between 1936 and 1945 by the four major survey organizations active during that period. We also developed a series of weights to ameliorate the problems introduced by the quota-sampling procedures employed at the time. The corrected data files and weights were released in May 2011. In this article, we briefly discuss the data and weighting procedures and then present selected time series determined using questions that were repeated on 10 or more surveys. The time series provide considerable leverage for understanding the dynamics of public opinion in one of the most volatile—and pivotal—eras in American history. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/723612022-09-26T14:31:29Z Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s Berinsky, Adam Powell, Eleanor Neff Schickler, Eric Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Berinsky, Adam Berinsky, Adam Yohai, Ian Brett Studies of mass political attitudes and behavior before the 1950s have been limited by a lack of high-quality, individual-level data. Fortunately, data from public opinion polls conducted during the late New Deal and World War II periods are available, although the many difficulties of working with these data have left them largely untouched for over 60 years. We compiled and produced readily usable computer files for over 400 public opinion polls undertaken between 1936 and 1945 by the four major survey organizations active during that period. We also developed a series of weights to ameliorate the problems introduced by the quota-sampling procedures employed at the time. The corrected data files and weights were released in May 2011. In this article, we briefly discuss the data and weighting procedures and then present selected time series determined using questions that were repeated on 10 or more surveys. The time series provide considerable leverage for understanding the dynamics of public opinion in one of the most volatile—and pivotal—eras in American history. 2012-08-28T13:10:47Z 2012-08-28T13:10:47Z 2011-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1049-0965 1537-5935 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72361 Adam J. Berinsky, Eleanor Neff Powell, Eric Schickler and Ian Brett Yohai. "Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s." PS: Political Science & Politics,44, pp 515520. © Cambridge University Press 2011 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-9396 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S104909651100059X PS Political Science & Politics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Cambridge University Press MIT web domain |
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| title | Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s |
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| title_short | Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s |
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