An Audit of Political Behavior Research

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dc.citation.issueNumber3
dc.citation.journalTitleSAGE Open
dc.citation.volumeNumber8
dc.contributor.authorRobison, Joshua
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Randy T.
dc.contributor.authorDruckman, James N.
dc.contributor.authorJackman, Simon
dc.contributor.authorKatz, Jonathan N.
dc.contributor.authorVavreck, Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-09T14:59:56Z
dc.date.available2018-11-09T14:59:56Z
dc.date.issued2018
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.
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.
dc.identifier.digitalAudit-Political
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018794769
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103292
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordpolitical behavior
dc.subject.keywordpolitical science
dc.subject.keywordsocial sciences
dc.subject.keywordvoting
dc.subject.keywordpublic opinion
dc.subject.keywordsurveys
dc.subject.keywordAmerican national selection studies
dc.subject.keywordquantitative political science
dc.titleAn Audit of Political Behavior Research
dc.typeJournal article
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