The American National Election Studies (ANES) will be accepting question
proposals for inclusion on the first two waves of The 2010-2012
Evaluations of Government and Society Study for six more days. (Please
note: Only Registered Users are allowed to post proposals and comments
on the Online Commons. If a proposal has multiple authors, every author
must be a Registered User before the proposal can be posted.)
Proposals will be accepted until 3:00p.m. EDT, May 5, 2010. The deadline
for members of the Online Commons community to comment on proposals is
May 12, 2010. The deadline for revisions to proposals is 3:00p.m. EDT on
May 19, 2010. For additional information about how to submit a proposal,
please visit: http://www.electionstudies.org/
The following describes the goals of this study and provides greater
detail about the opportunity to include questions on it.
About The 2010-2012 Evaluations of Government and Society Study
The overarching theme of the surveys is citizen attitudes about
government and society. These Internet surveys represent the most
cost-effective way for the ANES user community to gauge political
perceptions during one of the most momentous periods in American
history. Aside from the historic nature of the current administration
and the almost unprecedented economic crisis facing the country, we
believe it is imperative that researchers assess attitudes about
politics and society in the period leading up to the 2012 national
elections. Specifically, we have in mind here attitudes about the
performance of the Obama administration on the major issues of the day,
evaluations of Congress and the Supreme Court, identification with and
attitudes about the major political parties, and levels of interest in
and engagement with national politics. This is primarily because these
perceptions are unmistakably correlated with both presidential vote
choice and levels of political participation. We intend to measure each
of these topics at multiple points throughout the two-year period
preceding the 2012 elections. However in addition to these subjects, we
envision that each of these surveys would explore a particular aspect of
these political perceptions.
This Study will include five rolling cross-section waves that will allow
us the opportunity to pilot new items for possible inclusion on the 2012
time series. By offering multiple opportunities for the user community
to place their items on one or more surveys, we will provide the
capacity to survey on a diverse set of topics that are relevant to a
wide set of research communities. Lastly, the flexibility of these
surveys as to both content and timing will allow the ANES to respond
promptly to emerging political issues in this volatile period in our
country's history.
About the Online Commons
The design of the questionnaires for The 2010-2012 Evaluations of
Government and Society Study will evolve from proposals and comments
submitted to the Online Commons (OC). The OC is an online system
designed to promote communication among scholars and to yield innovative
proposals about the most effective ways to measure electorally-relevant
concepts and relationships. The goal of the OC is to improve the quality
and scientific value of ANES data collections, to encourage the
submission of new ideas, and to make such experiences more beneficial to
and enjoyable for investigators. In the last study cycle, more than 700
scholars sent over 200 proposals through the Online Commons.
Proposals for the inclusion of questions must include clear theoretical
and empirical rationales. All proposals must also clearly state how the
questions will increase the value of the respective studies. In
particular, proposed questions must have the potential to help scholars
understand the causes and/or consequences of turnout or candidate
choice.
For more information about the criteria that will be used to evaluate
proposals, please see
http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/2010_2012EGSS/2010_2012EGSScri
teria.htm
This opportunity is open to anyone who wants to make a constructive
contribution to the development of ANES surveys. Feel free to pass this
invitation along to anyone (e.g., your colleagues and students) who you
think might be interested. We hope to hear from you.
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