An Audit of Political Behavior Research

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dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleSAGE Openen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber8en_US
dc.contributor.authorRobison, Joshuaen_US
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Randy T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDruckman, James N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJackman, Simonen_US
dc.contributor.authorKatz, Jonathan N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorVavreck, Lynnen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-09T14:59:56Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-11-09T14:59:56Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractWhat are the most important concepts in the political behavior literature? Have experiments supplanted surveys as the dominant method in political behavior research? What role does the American National Election Studies (ANES) play in this literature? We utilize a content analysis of over 1,100 quantitative articles on American mass political behavior published between 1980 and 2009 to address these questions. We then supplement this with a second sample of articles published between 2010 and 2018. Four key takeaways are apparent. First, the agenda of this literature is heavily skewed toward understanding voting to a relative lack of attention to specific policy attitudes and other topics. Second, experiments are ascendant, but are far from displacing surveys, and particularly the ANES. Third, while important changes to this agenda have occurred over time, it remains much the same in 2018 as it was in 1980. Fourth, the centrality of the ANES seems to stem from its time-series component. In the end, we conclude that the ANES is a critical investment for the scientific community and a main driver of political behavior research.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRobison, Joshua, Stevenson, Randy T., Druckman, James N., et al.. "An Audit of Political Behavior Research." <i>SAGE Open,</i> 8, no. 3 (2018) Sage: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018794769.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalAudit-Politicalen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018794769en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103292en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.rightsThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordpolitical behavioren_US
dc.subject.keywordpolitical scienceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsocial sciencesen_US
dc.subject.keywordvotingen_US
dc.subject.keywordpublic opinionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsurveysen_US
dc.subject.keywordAmerican national selection studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordquantitative political scienceen_US
dc.titleAn Audit of Political Behavior Researchen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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