HIDDEN NEGATIVISM: EVALUATION OF SWEDISH PARTIES AND THEIR LEADERS UNDER DIFFERENT SURVEY METHODS |
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| Authors: | Esaiasson Peter; Granberg Donald |
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| Institution: | Peter Esaiasson, faculty member at the Department of Political Science, Goteborg University, has been involved with the Swedish Election Studies Program for a number of years. His special focus has been on the history of election campaigns in Sweden, party leaders, and compositional studies of the Swedish parliament. He has written three books on these topics.
Donald Granberg, Research Associate of the Center for Research in Social Behavior at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has done research on the social psychology of politics, the abortion controversy, and the Monty Hall dilemma. He spent three years in Sweden doing comparative analyses and collaborating on survey analyses with Swedish colleagues. |
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| Abstract: | A comparison was made of how Swedish adults evaluated politicalparties and the party leaders under three different survey methods:in-person interviews, telephone interviews, and mailed questionnaires.Both the party leaders and the parties were evaluated more negativelyby people responding on the mailed questionnaires. Telephoneand in-person interviewees did not differ significantly. Theevidence did not indicate that the mailed questionnaire respondentsanswered more carelessly or in a less coherent manner. The levelof evaluation was affected by the method, but the structureof the answers was not. The results imply that most estimatesof popular support for political leaders underestimate the levelof disapproval. |
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