Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 2860
77 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 2860
SSRN
In: International journal of public opinion research, Band 34, Heft 1
ISSN: 1471-6909
Abstract
Traditionally, election polls have asked for participants' own voting intentions. In four elections, we previously found that we could improve predictions by asking participants how they thought their social circles would vote. A potential concern is that the social-circle question might predict results less well in elections with larger numbers of political options because it becomes harder to accurately track how social contacts plan to vote. However, we now find that the social-circle question performs better than the own-intention question in predicting two elections with many political parties: The Netherlands' 2017 general election and the Swedish 2018 general election.