Deliberative polls: Toward improved measures of "informed" public opinion?

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 142-175

  Price, Vincent ^a   Neijens, Peter ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032091997     PISSN: 09542892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/10.2.145     Document Type: Review

References (56)

1. Alwin, D. F. and Krosnick, J. A. (1985): 'The measurement of values in surveys: A comparison of ratings and rankings', Public Opinion Quarterly, 49, 535-52.
2. Beckwith, N. E., and Lehmann, D. R. (1975): 'The importance of halo effects in multi-attribute attitude models', Journal of Marketing Research, 12, 265-75.
3. Bettman, J. R. and Kakkar, P. (1977): 'Effects of information presentation format on consumer information acquisition strategies', Journal of Consumer Research, 3, 233-240.
4. Bishop, G. F., Oldendick, R. W., Tuchfarber, A. J. and Bennett, S. E. (1980): 'Pseudo-opinions on public affairs', Public Opinion Quarterly, 44, 198-209.
5. Blumer, H. (1946): 'Collective behavior'. In A. M. Lee (ed.) New Outlines of the Principles of Sociology, New York, Barnes and Noble, pp. 167-222.
6. Bryce, J. (1888): The American Commonwealth (Vol. 3), London, Macmillan.
7. Burnstein, E. and Vinokur, A. (1977): 'What a person thinks upon learning he has chosen differently from others', Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, 11, 412-26.
8. Converse, P. E. (1987): 'Changing conceptions of public opinion in the political process', Public Opinion Quarterly, 51, S12-S24.
9. Converse, J. M. and Presser, S. (1986): Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire. Sage University Papers series on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, series no. 07-063. Newbury Park, CA, Sage.
10. Deutsch, M. and Gerard, H. B. (1955): 'A study of normative and informational influences upon individual judgment', Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 51, 629-36.
11. Dienel, P. C. (1978): Die Planungszelle: Eine Alternative zur Establishment-Demokratie. Der Bürger plant seine Umwelt, Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag.
12. Dienel, P. C. (1989): 'Contributing to social decision methodology: Citizen reports on technological problems'. In C. Vlek and G. Cvetkovich (eds.) Social Decision Making for Technological Problems, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 133-51.
13. Edwards, W. (1977): 'Use of multiattribute utility measurement for social decision making'. In D. E. Bell, R. L. Keeney and H. Raiffa (eds.) Conflicting Objectives in Decisions. New York, Wiley.
14. Edwards, W. (1983): 'Human cognitive capabilities, representativeness, and ground rules for research'. In P. Humphreys, O. Svenson and A. Vari (eds.) Analysing and Aiding Decision Processes, Amsterdam, North-Holland.
15. Estlund, D. M. (1994): 'Opinion leaders, independence, and Condorcet's Jury Theorem', Theory and Decision, 36, 131-62.
16. Fischhoff, B. (1984): 'Informed consent for transient nuclear workers'. In R. Kasperson and R. W. Kates (eds.) Equity Issues in Nuclear Waste Disposal. Cambridge, MA, Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain.
17. Fischhoff, B., Slovic, P. and Lichtenstein, S. (1980): 'Labile values: a challenge for risk assessment'. In J. Conrad (ed.) Society, Technology and Risk Assessment, London, Academic Press.
18. Fishkin, J. S. (1991): Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform, New Haven: Yale University Press.
19. Fishkin, J. S. (1994): 'Britain experiments with the deliberative poll', The Public Perspective, July/August, 27-9.
20. Fishkin, J. S. (1995): The Voice of the People: Public opinion and Democracy, New Haven, Yale University Press.
21. Habermas, J. (1989): The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (T. Burger, Trans.): Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. (Original work published 1962).
22. Iyengar, S. (1991): Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
23. Kahneman, D., P. Slovic and A. Tversky (eds.) (1982): Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, London, Cambridge University Press.
24. Kay, A. F., Henderson, H., Steeper, F. and Lake, C. (1994a): Interviews with the Public Guide Us . . . On the Road to Consensus, Americans Talk Issues Foundation, St. Augustine, Florida.
25. Kay, A. F., Henderson, H., Steeper, F. and Lake, C., Greenberg, S. B., Blunt, C. (1994b): Steps for Democracy: The Many versus the Few, Americans Talk Issues Foundation, St. Augustine, Florida.
26. Keeney, R. L. and Raiffa, H. (1976): Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. New York, Wiley.
27. Key, V. O., Jr. (1961): Public Opinion and American Democracy, New York, Knopf.
28. Krosnick, J. A. and Alwin, D. F. (1988): 'A test of the form-resistant correlation hypothesis: Ratings, rankings, and the measurement of values', Public Opinion Quarterly, 52, 526-38.
29. Merkle, D. M. (1997): 'Polls-review: The National Issues Convention Deliberative Poll', Public Opinion Quarterly, 60, 588-619.
30. Molenaar, N. J. (1982): 'Response effects of "formal" characteristics of questions'. In W. Dijkstra and J. van der Zouwen (eds.) Response Behaviour in the Survey Interview, London, Academic Press.
31. Moscovici, S. (1985): 'Social influence and conformity'. In G. Lindzey and E. Aronson, (eds.) The Handbook of Social Psychology (Vol. 2, 3rd edn.), New York, Random House, pp. 347-412.
32. Neijens, P. (1987): The Choice Questionnaire. Design and Evaluation of an Instrument for Collecting Informed Opinions of a Population, Amsterdam, Free University Press.
33. Neijens, P., de Ridder, J. A. and Saris, W. E. (1988): 'Variation in response functions and prescription for information integration'. In W. E. Saris (ed.) Variation in Response Behavior: A Source of Measurement Error in Attitude Research, Amsterdam, Sociometric Research Foundation.
34. Neijens, P., Ridder, J. A. de, and Saris, W. E. (1992): 'An instrument for collecting informed opinions', Quality and Quantity, 26, 245-58.
35. Neuman, W. R. (1986): The Paradox of Mass Politics: Knowledge and Opinion in the American Electorate, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
36. Petty, R. E. and Cacioppo, J. T. (1981): Attitudes and Persuasion: Classic and Contemporary Approaches, Dubuque, IA, W. C. Brown Co.
37. Petty, R. E., Rennier, G. A., and Cacioppo, J. T. (1987): 'Assertion versus interrogation format in opinion surveys. Questions enhance thoughtful responding', Public Opinion Quarterly, 51, 481-94.
38. Price, V., and Neijens, P. (1997): 'Opinion quality in public opinion research', International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 9, 336-60.
39. Price, V. and Tewksbury, D. (1997): 'News values and public opinion: A theoretical account of media priming and framing'. In G. Barnett and F. J. Boster (eds.) Progress in the Communication Sciences, New York, Ablex, pp. 173-212.
40. Renn, O., Stegelmann, H. U., Albrecht, G., Kotte, U. and Peters, H. P. (1984): 'An empirical investigation of citizens' preferences among four energy alternatives', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 26, 11-46.
41. Rohrmann, B. (1986): 'Evaluating the usefulness of decision aids: A methodological perspective'. In B. Brehmer, H. Jungermann, P. Lourens and G. Sevón (eds.) New Directions in Research on Decision Making, Amsterdam, North-Holland, pp. 363-81.
42. Schooler, J. W. and Wilson, T. D. (1991): 'Thinking too much: Introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 181-92.
43. Schuman, H. and Presser, S. (1981): Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context, New York, Academic Press.
44. Slovic, P. and Lichtenstein, S. (1971): 'Comparison of Bayesian and regression approaches to the study of information processing in judgment', Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 6, 649-744.
45. Slovic, P., Fischhoff, B. and Lichtenstein, S. (1980): 'Informing the public about the risks of ionizing radiation'. Paper prepared for the public meeting 'A Proposed Federal Radiation Research Agenda'.
46. Slovic, P., Fischhoff, B. and Lichtenstein, S. (1982): 'Response mode, framing, and information-processing effects in risk assessment'. In R. M. Hogarth (ed.) New Directions for Methodology of Social and Behavioral Science, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
47. Tanford, S. and Penrod, S. (1986): 'Jury deliberations: Discussion content and influence processes in jury decision making', Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 16, 322-47.
48. Tindale, R. S., Davis, J. H., Vollrath, D. A. and Nagao, D. H. (1990): 'Asymmetrical social influence in freely interacting groups: A test of three models', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 438-49.
49. Traugott, M. W. and Tucker, C. (1984): 'Strategies for predicting whether a citizen will vote and estimation of electoral outcomes', Public Opinion Quarterly, 48, 330-43.
50. Turner, J. C. (1982): 'Towards a cognitive redefinition of the social group'. In H. Tajfel (ed.) Social Identity and Intergroup Relations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 15-40.
51. Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D. (1982): 'Judgments under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases'. In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic and A. Tversky (eds.) Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, New York, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-20.
52. Van der Salm, C. A., van Knippenberg, D., and Daamen, D. D. L. (1997): 'A critical test of the Choice Questionnaire for collecting informed public opinions', Quality and Quantity, 31, 193-7.
53. Van Knippenberg, D. and Daamen, D. (1996): 'Providing information on public opinion surveys: Motivation and ability effects in the information-and-choice questionnaire', International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 8, 70-82.
54. Wilson, T. D., Lisle, D. J., and Schooler, J. W. (1993): 'Introspecting about reasons can reduce post-choice satisfaction', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 331-9.
55. Worcester, R. M. and Harrop, M. (1982): Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1979, London, George Allen & Unwin, pp. 78-87.
56. Yankelovich, D. (1991): Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press.