I checked 7 public opinion journals on Friday, July 31, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period July 24 to July 30, I found 3 new paper(s) in 3 journal(s).

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Ticket-splitting in Georgia
David Cottrell, M.V. Hood III, Seth C. McKee, Daniel A. Smith
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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology

Exploring Common Causes of Survey Cooperation and Response Quality in A Diary Study
Christopher Antoun, Joseph B Rodhouse, Elina T Page
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This study explores the potential link between nonresponse error and measurement error, two issues often treated separately in survey research. Using paradata and self-reports from a U.S. national food diary survey, we examine whether an individual’s likelihood to cooperate with a survey request influences their response behavior upon participating. We also examine factors such as respondent motivation, cognitive ability, and task difficulty that may simultaneously affect both response propensity and response behavior. Our results indicate that individuals with a lower propensity to participate in the diary survey were more likely to delay logging food events and backfill—adding entries for previous days that were missed—compared to those with a higher response propensity. However, no differences were found between these groups for other indicators of response quality. Additionally, while the factors we examined predicted cooperation, they did not account for variations in response quality. These findings suggest that recruiting reluctant respondents may inadvertently lead to increased problematic behaviors, such as backfilling. Nonetheless, the reasons behind the connection between response propensity and response behavior remain unclear, warranting further investigation.

Public Opinion Quarterly

Nonpolitical Identity Signals as Information Shortcuts: Evidence from Three Experiments
Levi G Allen, Wayde Z C Marsh
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A rich literature has documented how voters navigate the complex information landscape by using heuristics, or “information shortcuts,” to help them make sense of the political world. Additionally, a budding line of research argues that our current polarization crisis has extended beyond just the political and now even affects the nonpolitical realm. We submit that voters may be using these nonpolitical identity signals (e.g., a candidate driving a Toyota Prius or eating at Chick-fil-A) as heuristics to make sense of the contemporary political era. Using three original survey experiments, we find that these nonpolitical identity cues are indeed used by voters as partisan heuristics, but only in the absence of political (partisan and issue) informational cues. Furthermore, we also suppress the effect of partisan identification when we provide orthogonal nonpolitical information. These findings show that nonpolitical identity items can be used by citizens as information shortcuts to help citizens navigate the complicated political waters that surround them, but that their effect in light of other pieces of information is minimal.