scholarly journals How to estimate the policy preferences of party supporters: Disaggregating data from voting advice applications versus modeling survey responses

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 102403
Author(s):  
Dimiter Toshkov ◽  
Jeroen Romeijn
Keyword(s):  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Voting Advice Applications

scholarly journals Looking through the mirror: representativeness of the Italian party system before the 2018 General Election

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Beniamino Masi
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Voting Advice Applications

The use of the Internet and communication technologies has dramatically increased in recent times. This change has affected every aspect of political life, with electoral campaigns and parties making no exception. One of the most significant advancements on the theme is the spread of Voting Advice Applications (VAAs). These tools are developed before elections to match users’ policy preferences to those of the parties running. By looking at the dataset created with the answers of the users of an Italian VAA, Navigatore Elettorale, this study aims at understanding the representativeness of the six main parties running in the 2018 General Election. Through the development of a Representative Deficit Index, the study will also assess the key policy areas in which each of these parties performed best in the eyes of the electorate. The finding shows a diversified pattern of (in)successes for each of the parties, with some unexpected results.

Influence of postsurvey action on current survey responses

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina M. Kroustalis ◽  
Tara S. Behrend ◽  
Adam W. Meade ◽  
Eric A. Surface
Keyword(s):  
Current Survey ◽  
Survey Responses

Moral conviction, ideology and policy preferences in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Reifen Tagar ◽  
G. Scott Morgan ◽  
Linda J. Skitka ◽  
Eran Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Moral Conviction

268-OR: Conversations and Reactions around Severe Hypoglycemia (CRASH): Survey Responses of People Aged 65+ with T1DM or Insulin-Treated T2DM and Caregivers

Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 268-OR
Author(s):  
FRANK J. SNOEK ◽  
ERIK SPAEPEN ◽  
DONALD M. BUSHNELL ◽  
CHRISTOPHER J. CHILD ◽  
ZANETA BALANTAC ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Severe Hypoglycemia ◽  
Survey Responses

Narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and policy preferences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Eduardo Martinez ◽  
Lauren Feldman ◽  
Mallory Feldman ◽  
Mina Cikara
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Induced Representations ◽  
The Social

Scholars from across the social and media sciences have issued a clarion call to address a recent resurgence in criminalized characterizations of immigrants. Do these characterizations meaningfully impact individuals’ beliefs about immigrants and immigration? Across two online convenience samples (N = 1,054 adult U.S. residents), we applied a novel analytic technique to test how different narratives—criminal, achievement, struggle-oriented—impact cognitive representations of German, Russian, Syrian, and Mexican immigrants and the concept of “immigrants” in general. All stories featured male targets. Achievement stories homogenized individual immigrant representations whereas both criminal and struggle-oriented stories racialized them along a white/non-white axis: Germany clustered with Russia, Syria with Mexico. However, criminal stories were unique in making our most egalitarian participants’ representations as differentiated as our least egalitarian participants’. Narratives about individual immigrants also generalized to update representations of nationality groups. Most important, narrative-induced representations correlated with immigration policy preferences: achievement narratives and corresponding homogenized representations promoted preferences for less restriction, criminal narratives for more.

Alexander First Nations Parents’ Perceptions of a School Nutrition Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Gillies ◽  
Anna Farmer ◽  
Katerina Maximova ◽  
Noreen D. Willows ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Nutrition Policy ◽  
School Nutrition ◽  
Healthy Foods ◽  
Promotion Strategy ◽  
Food Programs ◽  
Health Promotion Strategy ◽  
Survey Responses

Purpose: A school nutrition policy (SNP) is one promising school-based health promotion strategy to improve the food environments of First Nations children. The aim of this study was to explore First Nations parents’ perceptions of a SNP. Methods: A process evaluation of policy implementation was conducted using a mixed-methods design. Parents (n = 83) completed a 19-question survey to capture their perceptions of the policy. Survey responses informed questions in an 11-question semi-structured interview guide. Transcripts from interviews with parents (n = 10) were analyzed using content analysis to identify barriers and facilitators to policy implementation. Results: Parents were supportive of the SNP and the school’s food programs, which they perceived as helping to address community concerns related to nutrition. However, some parents opposed the restriction of unhealthy foods at school celebrations and fundraisers. In addition, despite being aware of the SNP, parents were unable to demonstrate an understanding of the SNP content. Finally, parents struggled to provide their children with healthy foods to bring to school due to lack of affordable and accessible food in the community. Conclusions: Although SNPs may be well-received in First Nations communities, their implementation must be supported by parent involvement and consideration of wider socioeconomic conditions.

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