75 Years of the ANES
Reflections on 75 years of the ANES
ANES at APSA 2024
120th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition
September 5-8, 2024
Phildalphia, PA
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the ANES: New Directions
Thursday, September 5, 2024, noon to 1:30 pm
Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), Room 203A
- 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
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.
The American National Election Studies at 75: Their Past, Present, and Future
Friday, September 6, 2024, 8:00 am to 9:30 am
Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), 112B
- Geoffrey C. Layman, University of Notre Dame (chair)
- John H. Aldrich, Duke University
- Diana C. Mutz, University of Pennsylvania
- Virginia Sapiro, Boston University and University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Merrill Shanks, University of California-Berkeley
- Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
75th Anniversary Celebration of the American National Election Study
Fri, September 6, 7:30 to 9:00pm
Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), 109B
Sponsored by:
- Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior
- Political Psychology
- The University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the ANES: New Directions
Thursday, September 5, 2024, noon to 1:30 pm
Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), Room 203A
- 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
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.
The American National Election Studies at 75: Their Past, Present, and Future
Friday, September 6, 2024, 8:00 am to 9:30 am
Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), 112B
- Geoffrey C. Layman, University of Notre Dame (chair)
- John H. Aldrich, Duke University
- Diana C. Mutz, University of Pennsylvania
- Virginia Sapiro, Boston University and University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Merrill Shanks, University of California-Berkeley
- Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
75th Anniversary Celebration of the American National Election Study
Fri, September 6, 7:30 to 9:00pm
Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), 109B
Sponsored by:
- Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior
- Political Psychology
- The University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies
Heather E. Yates of the University of Central Arkansas uses ANES 2020 data to explore how emotional responses to presidential candidates shaped voters’ attitudes on key issues such as economic appraisals, national security and social policy.
Kendrick Roberson from Pepperdine University leverages ANES data (1986-2020) to show that racial resentment has become an increasingly strong predictor of support for labor unions over time.
Eun Ji Sally Son from Columbia University uses ANES data in her poster to examine polarization in public opinion on education policy, revealing shifts in attitudes over time and across partisan lines.
Erin Cassese, University of Delaware, presents her work using ANES data identifying abortion-focused Americans with extreme views and higher political participation suggesting this minority has historically influenced policy disproportionately.
Using 2020 ANES data, Stan Oklobdzija from Tulane University reports on the decline of male-dominated industries with shifts in the American economy contributing to rising populism and authoritarianism by reinforcing sexism, racism, and nativism.
Georgetown University’s Amanda Sahar D’Urso discusses the role ANES data plays in the representation of minority groups including those of Middle East and North African descent in her work in experimental and observational political science research.
Using 2012 ANES data, Talbot M. Andrews from Cornell University shows that Hurricane Sandy increased belief in climate change and reveals how policy-specific beliefs can drive different responses to climate disasters.
John Aldrich details the contributions of many groups critical to the success and scientific advances of the ANES – PIs, NSF, Board, staff, and the user community.
Merrill Shanks on the changing role of policy-related attitudes over time as evidenced in the ANES 1952-2000 time series studies.
Kristin Lunz Trujillo from the University of South Carolina uses 2019 and 2020 ANES data to examine urban-rural divisions in the U.S. Individuals who strongly identify as “rural” or “urban” express sharper differences in political attitudes and behaviors.
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)
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.