The ANES Guide to Public Opinion
and Electoral Behavior
The Guide provides immediate
access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public
opinion, electoral behavior, and choice in American politics over time.
It serves as a resource for political observers, policy makers, and
journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists.
The Guide currently contains data from 1948
through 2004.
(NOTE: no ANES time series study was conducted in 2006).
Displays in the Guide are organized into nine topics:
- Social and
Religious Characteristics of the Electorate
(such as age, race, gender, education, and religion)
- Partisanship
and Evaluation of the Political Parties
- Ideological
Self-Identification
- Public
Opinion on Public Policy Issues
(such as health care, affirmative
action, abortion, the military, and the economy)
- Support
for the Political System
(such as trust in government and government
responsiveness)
- Political
Involvement and Participation in Politics
(such as voter turnout,
campaign contributions and other activities, attention to
the campaign
in the media, and interest in politics)
- Evaluation
of the Presidential Candidates
- Evaluation
of Congressional Candidates
- Vote
Choice
(for president, for U.S. House of Representatives, and
split-ticket voting)
Questions represented in the Guide are a small
but significant portion of the questions
that have been asked in the American
National Election Studies time-series.
Guide data have
been produced from the ANES Cumulative Data File, which combines
data
from the individual ANES time-series studies for selected questions.
To download the ANES
Cumulative Data File, visit the ANES Data Center.
For more information about the Guide, see
How to
use the ANES Guide.
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