Jeffrey M. Stonecash

Political Polling (eBook, PDF)

Strategic Information in Campaigns

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Information is crucial for candidates in political campaigns. This book, written by someone who has polled for 23 years, first focuses on the process of acquiring information during a campaign through polling. The book describes how to write questions, draw samples of voters, and conduct calling. The second major concern of the book is how to analyze results, and then interpret and present results in a way that will contribute to forming a strategy for a campaign. The book deals with the issues of biased questions and results, and why it is of no value to candidates to engage in such practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216228790
• Artikelnr.: 75138310

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Stonecash is professor of political science at Syracuse University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Campaigns, Democracy, and the Need for Information
Chapter 3 Purpose, Limited Budgets, and When to Poll
Chapter 4 What Kind of Poll?
Chapter 5 Writing Questions: Language and the Script
Chapter 6 Pulling a Sample: Who Votes, Sample Size, and Representativeness
Chapter 7 Callers and Calling
Chapter 8 The Crucial Part: Analysis and Developing a Campaign Plan
Chapter 9 Reports and Recommendations
Chapter 10 Tracking Polls and the Undecided
Chapter 11 A Final Note on Polling and Democracy
Chapter 12 Appendix: A Sample Report
Chapter 13 Bibliography