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Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: G. Elliott Morris
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy. Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic p
Lost in a Gallup
Language: en
Pages: 365
Authors: W. Joseph Campbell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-02-20 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Lost in a Gallup tells the story of polling flops and failures in presidential elections since 1936. Polls do go bad, as outcomes in 2020, 2016, 2012, 2004, an
Polling at a Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Michael A. Bailey
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Public opinion polling is in crisis. People aren't responding to polls and misses in critical elections have undermined the field's credibility. Polling at a Cr
The Polls Weren't Wrong
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Carl Allen
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-09-24 - Publisher: CRC Press

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Interpreting poll data as a prediction of election outcomes is a practice as old as the field, rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what poll data means.
Beyond the Horse Race
Language: en
Pages: 173
Authors: John Zogby
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-27 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Called a "timely read for the politically inclined" (Booklist), this book from one of America’s most prominent pollsters offers readers a master class in unde