Is a Volunteered Response Sufficient? Measuring Pure Independents in Public Opinion Surveys of Americans

• In Event: Ideology and Ideological Formation

Brief Overview

In this paper, we pose the question, are online surveys overcounting independents or are traditional live interviewer surveys undercounting independents?

Authors

• Joshua J. Dyck, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

• Jack Santucci, Drexel University

• Alexander Agadjanian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology