Public Opinion Quarterly
Vol. 77, Issue 4, Pages 853-86
December 2013
HKS Authors
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Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government
Abstract
The article presents an executive summary of a
report made by the task force of the organization the American
Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) on the subject of
public opinion and leadership. According to the article, the task force
recommended that AAPOR should increase its public presence in arguing
for the significance of public opinion and public opinion polling in
democracy, backed the notion of a clearinghouse or central database for
public opinion data and analysis, and supported the idea of
meta-analyses or meta-reviews of data in public opinion in certain
political policy areas.
Citation
Newport, Frank, Robert Y. Shapiro, Whit Ayres, Nancy Belden, James Fishkin, Archon Fung, Susan Herbst, Celinda Lake, Benjamin Page, Susan Page, James P. Pinkerton, J. Ann Selzer, and Mark Warren. "Polling and Democracy." Public Opinion Quarterly 77.4 (December 2013): 853-86.