Trial Use of Public Opinion Survey Procedures in Determining Immigration and Colonization Policies for Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru

Social Forces ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
C. P. Loomis
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Public Opinion Survey

Perception of Traffic Noise Barrier Effectiveness: Public Opinion Survey of Residents Living near I-71

1997 ◽  
Vol 1601 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd A. Herman ◽  
Michael A. Finney ◽  
Craig M. Clum ◽  
E.W. Pinckney
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Noise Barriers ◽  
Noise Abatement ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Public Opinion Survey ◽  
Project Area ◽  
Noise Barrier

The completion of the largest Ohio Department of Transportation traffic noise abatement project in 1995 was met with public controversy over the effectiveness of the noise barriers. A public opinion survey was designed to obtain the perceptions of the residents in the project area. In a departure from most surveys of traffic noise barrier effectiveness, the coverage was not limited to the first or second row of houses, but was extended to 800 m on each side of the roadway. It was found that the larger survey area was needed to avoid misleading conclusions. Overall perceptions of noise barrier effectiveness were found to vary with distance from the roadway and with noise barrier configuration.

Testing the Effects of Paired Issue Statements on the Seven-Point Issue Scales

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 61-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
National Election ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Question Format ◽  
Public Opinion Survey ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Political Controversy ◽  
Election Studies

Many recent empirical analyses of citizens' issue attitudes rely on the seven-point issue scales, which have been included in all of the biennial National Election Studies (NES) since 1968. The question format used to create these scales requires people to respond to two different issue statements simultaneously. While this approach has a number of practical advantages, it may also distort the measurement of issue attitudes in several ways. In order to examine this possibility, a 1990 South Carolina public-opinion survey had people respond to the separate issue statements. The empirical results lead to an optimistic assessment of the seven-point scales. People do seem to regard the paired issue statements in any of the seven-point questions as the opposite sides of a political controversy. This general conclusion has some important caveats: there are several distinct dimensions underlying citizens' issue judgments, and the degree of psychological distance between conflicting issue positions varies somewhat across issues. These findings have important implications for our understanding and measurement of citizens' issue attitudes.

Limitations on the compensation of gamete donors: a public opinion survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (6) ◽  
pp. 1355-1363.e4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malinda S. Lee ◽  
Leslie V. Farland ◽  
Stacey A. Missmer ◽  
Elizabeth S. Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Public Opinion Survey

scholarly journals The raced constitution of Europe: The Eurobarometer and the statistical imagination of European racism

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Slootweg ◽  
Rogier van Reekum ◽  
Willem Schinkel
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Public Opinion Survey ◽  
Opinion Polling ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Public ◽  
Shed Light

Centering upon the first Europe-wide public opinion survey of racism, carried out by the Eurobarometer in 1988, this article explores how studying European public opinion research can shed light on what we call the raced constitution of Europe. Based on an analysis of this Eurobarometer survey, we scrutinize how Eurobarometer opinion polling involves a constant scale-switching through which ‘Europe’ and ‘racism’ are co-produced. As we argue, techniques of European opinion polling contributed to the imagination of a ‘European’ ideological whole, from which stabilized categories of ‘non-European others’ were excluded. By creating an opposition between ‘democratic Europe’ and ‘individualized xenophobia’, racism was enacted as a lower class attitude ‘not of Europe’ and as a permanent rem(a)inder of the past that serves to legitimate the project of European integration.

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