ANES 1980 Time Series Study

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Label

ANES 1980 Time Series Study

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Miller, Warren E

Contributor

• National Election Studies/Center for Political Studies

Author

• National Election Studies/Center for Political Studies
• Miller, Warren E

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• congressional elections
• domestic policy
• economic conditions
• election returns
• foreign policy
• government performance
• information sources
• national elections
• political affiliation
• political attitudes
• political campaigns
• political efficacy
• political issues
• Campaign funds
• presidential elections
• primaries
• public approval
• public opinion
• special interest groups
• survey
• trust in government
• voter expectations
• voter history
• voting behavior
• political participation
• Elections -- Statistics
• Reagan Administration (1981-1989)
• campaign contributions
• candidates

Genre

• survey

Summary

This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1948. The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. Four areas were targeted for special attention: new measurement of party identification, the measurement of voter attitudes concerning issues of public policy, new content concerning public perceptions of and responses to political leadership, and the exploration of social networks in the crystallization of the vote choice. Special-interest and topical content includes questions on the proposed 30% tax cut, new questions on campaign contributions and party identification, new retrospective and prospective evaluations of the economy, new issue scales on defense spending and U.S. foreign policy toward Russia, a new abortion question, and the introduction to the ANES time series of 'traits and affects' measures of perception and response regarding political leadership. Besides representing a traditional pre-post election study, the two waves of the 1980 ANES Time Series Study were simultaneously components of a larger project consisting of 8 integrated survey data collections carried out throughout 1980 and scheduled at strategically chosen time periods in the course of the election year, along with vote validation and contextual data. Other studies in the project included the four-wave 1980 Major Panel Study [ICPSR 35120], and a 2-wave minor panel that is available only in the ANES 1980 Merged File [ICPSR 35119], which combines into a single dataset all of the ANES data collected in 1980. The National Election Studies Board established a 1980 Presidential Elections Committee that consisted of three Board members (Merrill Shanks, John Jackson, David Sears) and three additional scholars (Richard S. Brody, Jack Dennis, Donald R. Kinder). This committee, along with the Center for Political Studies project staff, was responsible for the planning of the year-long study. The Pre- and Post-Election Surveys file contains the traditional election survey data. Contextual measures are provided along with the survey data, and include election returns, interest group ratings of incumbents, and Federal Election Commission campaign contribution data