Interest in political campaigns: The influence of question order and electoral context

Bishop, George F.; Oldendick, Robert W.; Tuchfarber, Alfred J.

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“…If the cost of passing from estimate e to estimate b is c (for example to acquire more observations), then such 5 In a very di¤erent context, Coupe 'and Noury (2004) show that, during a National Research Council investigation, US academics who declared themselves more familiar with speci…c doctorate programs were also more likely to express an evaluation on these programs. 6 Other elements in (1) can be in ‡uenced by information: for example the perception of P can be a¤ected by the polls published during the electoral campaign.…”

Section: Information and Turnoutmentioning

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“…In empirical terms, however, education and information can be correlated for a number of other reasons, including the fact that formal education might increase socialization, sense of e¢ cacy, and the identi…cation with the general values of a society. Sanders (2001) uses survey data from the 1996 US presidential election to show the importance of perceived uncertainty about candidates for turnout 5 . Delli Carpini and Keeter (1996) go one step further by using direct measures of political knowledge from the 1988 NES Survey and showing that these are good explanatory variables of turnout.…”

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Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election

Larcinese

2007

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Acknowledgements: I am very grateful to Tim Besley for helpful discussions during all stages of this project and for comments and suggestions on a number of previous versions of this paper. I also wish to thank Oriana Bandiera, Richard Blundell, Harold Clarke, Keith Dowding, Guillaume Frechette, Cesar Martinelli, Maria Pia Monteduro, Imran Rasul, Leo Rizzo, Cristiana Vitale and Donald Wittman as well as participants in a number of meetings and seminars for their useful comments and suggestions. I remain the sole responsible for limits and errors of this work. Financial support from the European Commission under the TMR Scheme (Marie Curie Fellowship) and from ESRC is gratefully acknowledged. AbstractA number of recent formal models predict a positive effect of political knowledge on turnout. Both information acquisition and turnout, however, are likely to be determined by a similar set of variables, rendering hard the identification of a causal link in empirical investigations. Available empirical regularities should therefore be interpreted as mere correlations. I address this problem by using an instrumental variables approach, where the instruments are represented by various proxies of information supply on mass media. Using survey data from the 1997 British General Election Study, I show that political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in influencing political participation.

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Section: Information and Turnoutmentioning

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Section: Information and Turnoutmentioning

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Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election

Larcinese

2007

Public Choice

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“…Therefore, all results are reported by collapsing across lists. To avoid contamination between the two dimensions of valence and arousal (Bishop, Oldendick, & Tuchfarber, 1984;Lau, Sears, & Jessor, 1990;Schuman, Kalton, & Ludwig, 1983;Wilcox & Wlezien, 1993), each participant was randomly assigned to rate the images on only the valence or only the arousal dimension. First, participants received a general description of the study (Screen 1) and detailed instructions on the meaning of the dimension that they would be asked to rate (Screen 2; for the full set of instructions, see Appendix 1).…”

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Introducing the Open Affective Standardized Image Set (OASIS)

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We introduce the Open Affective Standardized Image Set (OASIS), an open-access online stimulus set containing 900 color images depicting a broad spectrum of themes, including humans, animals, objects, and scenes, along with normative ratings on two affective dimensions-valence (i.e., the degree of positive or negative affective response that the image evokes) and arousal (i.e., the intensity of the affective response that the image evokes). The OASIS images were collected from online sources, and valence and arousal ratings were obtained in an online study (total N = 822). The valence and arousal ratings covered much of the circumplex space and were highly reliable and consistent across gender groups. OASIS has four advantages: (a) the stimulus set contains a large number of images in four categories; (b) the data were collected in 2015, and thus OASIS features more current images and reflects more current ratings of valence and arousal than do existing stimulus sets; (c) the OASIS database affords users the ability to interactively explore images by category and ratings; and, most critically, (d) OASIS allows for free use of the images in online and offline research studies, as they are not subject to the copyright restrictions that apply to the International Affective Picture System. The OASIS images, along with normative valence and arousal ratings, are available for download from www.benedekkurdi.com/#oasis or https://db.tt/yYTZYCga.

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“…The initial research on the effects of filter questions in surveys was conducted by Bishop and his associates (e.g., Bishop, 1987;Bishop, Oldendick, & Tuchfarber, 1982, 1984a, 1984b. They hypothesized that in answeringa self-reportquestion people do not perform an exhaustive search of their memory for all relevant information.…”

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“…All versions began with two filter questions, ended with a self-rating of political interest, and had four questions in between (see Exhibit 7.1). In half of the surveys, the filter questions were ones that most participants would have difficulty answering (see Bishop, 1987;Bishop et al, 1982Bishop et al, , 1984aBishop et al, , 1984b. In the remaining surveys, the filter questions' were ones that respondents with even a minimal degree of political knowledge couldanswer.…”

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Context Effects in Social and Psychological Research

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Interest in political campaigns: The influence of question order and electoral context

Cited by 40 publications

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Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election

Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election

Introducing the Open Affective Standardized Image Set (OASIS)

Context Effects in Social and Psychological Research

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