                              1997 Pilot Study
                          ICPSR Study Number: 2282

                             No. of Cases: 551
                             No. Variables: 1850



SPECIAL CONTENT:  
Specific topic areas in the study include: (1) a battery designed to improve
NES instrumentation on nonelectoral political participation and mobilization,
(2) testing of NES instrumentation on group closeness, group difference, and
group conflict as a basis of current mass politics, and group threat as a
basis of group-based politics, (3) evaluations of the President, Congress, and
the Supreme Court using a new battery of items, and (4) the role of religion
in citizens' political thinking. The use of CATI enabled a number of
experimental treatments within the survey instrumentation, including random
assignment, early-late placement, and presentation order.  In addition,
rosters of items, such as the thermometer, were randomized in administration
to minimize order effects.

DESIGN FEATURES:
This study is a one-wave reinterview of a randomly-selected subset of 1996
respondents with telephones; most of the selection from 1996 were  fresh'
Cross-section cases (respondents not previously interviewed in 1994).

