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Research World (June 2002)

The unexpected success of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of France’s recent Presidential election came as a shock for not only the nation’s politicians but its pollsters. As elsewhere, political opinion polling constitutes only a...

Catalogue: Research World 2002

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

June 1, 2002

The voters between left and right

9 out of 10 voters can position themselves on a left / right semantic differential scale. Some 30% choose for the center position. The scale-positions largely explain party-choice in elections as well as perceptions of political entities such as...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Jan Stapel

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1980

Sweden

The Swedish election 1985 produced a surprisingly strong finish for the small Liberal party in Sweden - 14,50% compared to 5,90% in the previous electron in 1982. The polls had kept the party in the 5 to 7% range until the weeks before the election...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Authors: Hans L. Zetterberg, Gunnar Andren

June 15, 1986

From stream to structure

This paper describes the use of computerised topic analysis to segment and analyse tweets by US presidential election candidates in 2016. The statistical technique used to create the topic is called Latent Dirichlet Analysis (LDA). The paper shows...

Catalogue: Big Data World 2016: Understanding People Through Smart Data

Author: Andrew Jeavons

November 18, 2016

The democracy of opinion polls

I would like to suggest that the polling industry should not agonise too much about getting elections wrong. Error may be good for you; an occasional disaster can be good for the industry and good for the public. If polls were to have too long a run...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: David Butler

June 15, 1986

The future of polling after 2020

The panelists will cover a number of areas regarding polling and the U.S. Election, including the following: - How the evidence explains what actually happened in this US election;- How criticisms of US pre-election polls have raised questions...

Catalogue: Webinars 2020

Authors: Kathy Frankovic, Clifford Alexander Young, Jennifer Agiesta, Jean-Marc Leger, Courtney Kennedy, Robert Y. Shapiro

December 16, 2020

Journalistic developments in the use of opinion polls: Panel discussion

I should like to spend a little time not talking so much about the finer statistics of "Sunday Times" polling when the "Sunday Times" is being published, but about some of the more general problems that we have had in recent years in the British...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Peter Kellner

June 15, 1980

Polls, media and the law in the Federal Republic of Germany

The German Law on the European Election does not contain any provisions concerning the publication of results from surveys conducted among voters during the European Parliament election in June 1979. The national laws in Europe vary considerably....

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Walter Rudolf

June 15, 1980

The contribution of qualitative research to the presidential campaign of Vicente Fox

Within the framework of theoretical and methodological reflection about the discussion group, this paper describes how qualitative research was used in the campaign of Vicente Fox, the new President of Mexico. Qualitative research provided the...

Catalogue: Latin America 2001

Authors: Guido Lara, Soledad Rojas

May 1, 2001