| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases
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| Summary |
Do Republicans and Democrats agree about the state of the economy? In this chapter, I describe a research project which uses cross-sectional survey data to better understand the economic perceptions of political partisans. My research process began with a deep dive into public opinion repositories, as I sought to better understand the gaps between Republicanś and Democratś beliefs about economic reality. After collecting national surveys which captured both party identification and economic questions, I assessed basic patterns in partisanś biased beliefs about the economy. But in addition, this investigation also unveiled the existence of questions tapping partisanś justifications for their economic perceptionśa surprising and theoretically compelling resource. Based on the availability of these data, I proposed a new research question, a theory, and additional hypotheses. I relied on logistic regression methods to assess these hypotheses, using interaction terms to assess how partisanship and economic perceptions combine to affect partisanś justifications for their beliefs. In this case study, I explain how other researchers might use thorough searches of survey repositories to similarly drive the formulation of rarely explored quantitative research questions and hypotheses |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on XML content |
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Economics -- Philosophy.
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Political parties -- Platforms.
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Regression analysis.
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Two-party systems.
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| Genre/Form |
Political platforms.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1526466716 |
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9781526466716 (ebook) |
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