The Current State of National Election Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

Participants in this roundtable will discuss recent developments in national survey research and the study of campaigns and elections. Members from the American National Election Studies, Australian Election Study, British Election Study, and Canadian Election Study will highlight methodological advances and recent data from their respective surveys. The roundtable will address opportunities that such studies offer for advancing our knowledge of elections (such as the use of panels or rolling cross-sections to model campaign dynamics or the estimation of causal effects with experimental designs in large-N surveys). Participants will also discuss some pitfalls and challenges facing large-scale election studies (such as low response rates or funding issues), including those specific to each national study as well as those common across different settings.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 36: Elections and Voting Behavior

Cosponsor

• DIVISION 49: Canadian Politics

Chair

• Jennifer L. Lawless University of Virginia

Presenters

• Shaun Bowler University of California, Riverside

• Shanto Iyengar Stanford University

• Peter John Loewen University of Toronto

• Laura Stephenson University of Western Ontario

• Ian McAllister Australian National University

• Christopher Prosser University of Manchester