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Opinion polls in democratic societies

In 1945 on July 5th, the day of Britain's post-war general election the News Chronicle published a poll which said that the Conservatives would get 41 per cent of the vote and Labour would get 47 per cent. Now, everybody in Britain knew that Mr....

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: David Butler

June 15, 1980

National value systems

Values are regarded as ordering principles for social action. This explains some of the scientific attention value problems have recently received. Is social change promoted by and linked to change in values? Are there both changeable and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Gerhard Schmidtchen

June 15, 1980

Conditions favouring "leftist extremism" in the Federal Republic of Germany (German)

In 1975 the Federal Ministry of the Interior commissioned Infratest Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH to make a study of the causes of political extremism, in particular of leftist extremism. This study is designed to identify the causes for the development...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Yola Laupheimer

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

June 15, 1977

Uses of research for decision making in the social-political sphere

Using the example of the German General Election 1976 we show how decisions can be reached with the help of survey research. Many examples are detailed: 1. Definition of the central theme of the election campaign; 2. Decision concerning the election...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1977

The use of research in socio-political decisions

The authors put forward a personal view of the development of social research in Italy since the end of World War II. They describe some of the difficulties inherent in commissioning and interpreting this type of research. Examples are given about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: Vincenzo Cesareo, Patrick G. M. Standen

June 15, 1977

Uses of research for decision making in the social-political sphere (German)

Using the example of the German General Election 1976 we show how decisions can be reached with the help of survey research. Many examples are detailed: 1. Definition of the central theme of the election campaign; 2. Decision concerning the election...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1977

Conditions favouring "leftist extremism" in the Federal Republic of Germany

In 1975 the Federal Ministry of the Interior commissioned Infratest Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH to make a study of the causes of political extremism, in particular of leftist extremism. This study is designed to identify the causes for the development...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Yola Laupheimer

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

June 15, 1977

Language, the press and political attitudes

Canada’s communications experience is of interest to other heterogeneous societies, especially where there are vertical cleavages such as language and region. The influence of language in the communications flow is highly visible, it means that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Arthur Siegel

August 1, 1975

Mass communication of political arguments

Within the scope of collectively sponsored consumer studies carried out on large probability samples from the adult Swedish population, questions have been put about attitudes towards political parties as well as towards business enterprises. At the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: Jarko Cerha

June 15, 1968