75 Years of the ANES
ANES at APSA 2024
120th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition
September 5-8, 2024
Phildalphia, PA
12:00 to 1:30pm, TBA
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the ANES: New Directions
Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Chair)
Yanna Krupnikov, University of Michigan
Nicholas Carlo Dias, University of Pennsylvania
The American National Election Studies (ANES) has been pivotal to the development of research on public, elections and voting behavior. To celebrate 75 years of the ANES, this panel brings together scholarship that is using ANES data in innovative ways. Jointly, the work in the panel represents new directions in the ANES, while underscoring the importance of survey for research on American politics.
Individual Presentations:
Inaccurate Beliefs Undermine Support for Solutions after Disaster, Talbot M Andrews, University of Connecticut
Do They Even Care? Empirical Evidence for Importance of Listening in Democracy, Andrew I Thompson, George Washington University
Identity and Political Behavior across the Urban-Rural Spectrum, Kristin Kay Lunz Trujillo, University of South Carolina and Jennifer Lin, Northwestern University
Research on Race and Ethnic Politics and the ANES, Amanda Sahar d’Urso, Georgetown University
ANES at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association
81st Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference
April 4-7, 2024
Hybrid Format: In-Person at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL or Online
Thursday, April 4, 2024
3:00-4:30pm
Seventy-five Years of the ANES: Challenges, Innovations and What Comes Next
Tasha Philpot, University of Texas, Austin (Chair)
Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan
Ted Brader, University of Michigan
Daron Shaw, University of Texas, Austin
Leonie Huddy, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Thursday, April 4, 2024
4:45-6:15pm
Celebrating 75 Years of the ANES: New Directions from Junior Scholars
Saif Tarek Abdelrasol (Virginia Tech)
Max Allamong (Duke University)
Marco M. Aviña (Harvard University)
Kalin Bennett (Notre Dame University)
Anne Chang (University of Michigan)
Hyun Euh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Matthew Kim (University of Wisconsin)
Sara Kirshbaum (Vanderbilt University)
Asfa Shakeel (London School of Economics)
Wei Zhong (New York University)
ANES panel, Nick Valentino speaks
Philpot, Valentino, Huddy, Shaw and Brader on the ANES panel
Daron Shaw speaks on the ANES panel
Leonie Huddy speaks at the ANES panel
ANES-branded swag at Midwest
ANES junior scholars’ poster session
MPSA2024-poster-session
ANES junior scholars’ poster session
Videos about ANES
NSF and the American National Election Studies, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University, November 2022.
The American National Election Studies: Measuring Public Opinion Since 1948 Nick Valentino, University of Michigan, August 2022.
ISR Insights Speaker Series – The ANES: History and Insights from Recent Surveys, Vincent L. Hutchings, University of Michigan, August 2020.
The American National Election Study and Archived Data at ICPSR, Introduction by Michael W. Traugott and Presentation by Vincent L. Hutchings, University of Michigan, July 2020.
Articles about ANES History
Aldrich, John. (2017) “The American National Elections Study as ‘Gold Standard’ for Survey Research in the Twenty-First Century,” ANES Board Report.
Weisberg, H. F. (2016). Reflections: The Michigan Four and Their Study of American Voters: A Biography of a Collaboration. PS: Political Science & Politics, 49(4), 845–858.
Burns, Nancy (2006). The Michigan, then National, then American National Election Studies .
Sapiro, Virginia. (1999) Fifty Years of the National Election Studies: A Case Study in the History of “Big Social Science.” Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta.
Miller, Warren E. (1994) An organizational history of the intellectual origins of the American National Election Studies, European Journal of Political Research, 25: 247-265.
For more about the origin of ANES, read A Visual History of the American National Election Studies, by Michigan’s Center for Political Studies.