A political survey.

Mode of access: Internet.

Analyse acoustique de la conviction exprimée dans des réponses de sondage : un raffinement des enquêtes téléphoniques

Les sondages téléphoniques visent habituellement l’enregistrement de réponses selon leur contenu linguistique littéral (« oui », « jamais », nom de politiciens, etc.). Cependant, les réponses orales contiennent également des aspects acoustiques qui expriment le degré de conviction des répondants. Dans les techniques actuelles de sondage, cette information, dite « extralinguistique », n’est pas retenue bien qu’elle puisse servir à la prédiction des comportements des répondants. Le présent mémoire a pour objectif de démontrer que des mesures acoustiques de la conviction exprimée par les répondants peuvent servir à améliorer la prédiction de comportements telle qu’estimée par les techniques de sondage. Cette démonstration se fait en deux étapes et implique deux expériences. L’Expérience 1, réalisée en laboratoire (n = 25), avait pour but d’isoler les variables vocales associées à l’expression de la conviction. Ce test a permis d’isoler des variables mesurables pertinentes et les distributions catégoriques de valeurs permettant une catégorisation des réponses selon un « degré de conviction ». L’Expérience 2 a porté sur l’application de ces mesures acoustiques dans l’analyse de réponses enregistrées lors d’un sondage téléphonique préélectoral fait par la firme Léger en 2010 (un corpus de 400 entrevues). Cette deuxième expérience a démontré qu’une catégorisation des réponses nominatives (n = 188) sur la base des variables associées à l’expression de la conviction (telles que définies à l’Expérience 1) peut améliorer la prédiction des comportements des électeurs. Les résultats suggèrent que les réponses orales à un sondage contiennent des indices acoustiques mesurables qui expriment un degré de conviction relié à une volonté de produire certains comportements. La nature de ces variables présente aussi la possibilité d’une détection automatique.

How Answers on Political Attitudes are Shaped by Interviewers: Evidence from a Panel Survey

We analyze whether the interviewers' political opinions have an influence on those of the respondents. The research uses data from a panel survey in which interviewers are randomly assigned to respondents. The results show that the respondents express significantly similar opinions to those of the interviewers in all questions considered. Multilevel models show that more educated respondents are affected to a slightly higher extent and that the interviewer's experience is also a factor. There is no difference between different respondent subgroups or when both interviewers and respondents share the same socio-demographic characteristics. While there is no evidence for respondents wanting to please the interviewers, the hypothesis of socially desirable behavior can indeed be confirmed.

Survey of political broadcasting.

Description based on: Sept. 1-Nov. 8, 1960; title from cover.

The political state of Europe for the year MDCCXCII : containing, an authentic and impartial narrative of every military operation of the present belligerent powers, and a correct copy of every state paper, declaration, manifesto, &c. that has been, and may be issued during the present war upon the continent ..., a correct translation of the debates and proceedings of the National assembly of France ..., together with a complete and accurate survey of the politics and conduct of the neutral powers at this very critical and interesting period

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The political state of Europe for the year MDCCXCIII : containing, an authentic and impartial narrative of every military operation of the present belligerent powers, and a correct copy of every state paper, declaration, manifesto, &c. &c., together with a correct translation of the debates and proceedings of the National Convention of France and an accurate survey of the politics and condut of the neutral powers ; vol. III.

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The political state of Europe for the year MDCCXCIII : containing, an authentic and impartial narrative of every military operation of the present belligerent powers, and a correct copy of every state paper, declaration, manifesto, &c. &c., together with a correct translation of the debates and proceedings of the National Convention of France and an accurate survey of the politics and condut of the neutral powers ; vol. IV.

Mode of access: Internet.

The political state of Europe for the year MDCCXCIII : containing, an authentic and impartial narrative of every military operation of the present belligerent powers, and a correct copy of every state paper, declaration, manifesto, &c. &c., together with a correct translation of the debates and proceedings of the National Convention of France and an accurate survey of the politics and condut of the neutral powers ; vol. V.

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Progress of nations. The social science series, a complete survey of the social, economic, religious, industrial, and political development of man.

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The United States of America; their history from the earliest period; their industry, commerce, banking transactions, and national works; their institutions and character, political, social, and literary: with a survey of the territory, and remarks on the prospects and plans of emigrants.

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The Russian empire of to-day and yesterday; the country and its peoples, together with a brief review of its history, past and present, and a survey of its social, political, and economic conditions,

Bibliography: p. 477-480.

America: or, A general survey of the political situation of the several powers of the western continent,

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The political districting problem: A survey

Computer scientists and social scientists consider the political districting problem from different viewpoints. This paper gives an overview of both strands of the literature on districting in which the connections and the differences between the two approaches are highlighted.