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"The creation of this book was guided by a kind of gut-level awareness that the study of human behavior in disaster had progressed to the point when it should be subjected to the most pertinent and reliable methodological and theoretical evaluations. It was assumed that the scientific community as well as operational agencies would benefit from the codification of the knowledge from the completed research. The announced purpose of this book is for methodological and theoretical codification of social research on disaster. Also, to appraise the current state of our knowledge in this field"--Create. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

The RePass article (The Forum, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2008), continues the tradition of writers using the National Election Survey data of defining "ideology" as the answer to the liberal-conservative self-labeling question, and fails to consider the structure of substantive public policy attitudes and values as a necessary indicator of ideology.

A Comment on the "Searching for Voters along the Liberal-Conservative Continuum.".

A review essay on a book by Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the U.S., 1939-44 (Washington & London: Brassey's, 1998).

As part of a symposium commenting on by Stanley Rothman, Seymour Martin Lipset, & Neil Nevitte's "Does Enrollment Diversity Improve University Education (2003)," important methodological problems with the authors' study are identified. Of primary concern is the reliance on respondents' (students, faculty, & administrators) subjective ratings as a measure of educational quality. Ways that such perceptions can be biased by racial stereotypes & prejudices are discussed, along with the need for more accurate analysis & presentation of the data. Areas for further research & policy implications are also explored. 7 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

This article reviews the various research institutions that Paul Lazarsfeld founded, & the work done there by himself & by his colleagues. Special emphasis is put on the Columbia Bureau of Applied Social Research. Starting with radio research, the Bureau later shifted its interest to personal influence studies. In the methodological realm, panel studies, snowball sampling, mathematical modeling, & many more contributed to the progress of social science. The Bureau's work under the guidance of Lazarsfeld is shown to have grown from an interplay of methodological or theoretical needs, of funds, of concrete subjects for study, & finally of findings that in turn create new methodological or theoretical needs. The article concludes by reviewing what might have become of the Columbia Bureau had circumstances been different. Adapted from the source document.

In revisiting the 2000 US presidential election, this article argues that any election is prone to the same complications that jeopardize any type of survey. When viewed through the eyes of a survey researcher, several complications common to most surveys -- including sampling & reliability problems -- are evident. Therefore, survey researchers who are familiar with polling procedure could easily have been called on to perform standard reliability checks to determine ballot readability. Because the article also calls into question the position of FL's justices & election officials, it is concluded that survey research expertise should be used to analyze not only the reforms that must be initiated within the US electoral system, but also the performance of election officials & the courts during this highly confusing, highly contested, presidential election. K. A. Larsen