I checked 7 public opinion journals on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period August 05 to August 11, I found 6 new paper(s) in 3 journal(s).

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Support for executive aggrandizement under weak polarization
Ikuma Ogura, Hirofumi Miwa, Yuko Kasuya
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Valence strategies and polling support during electoral campaigns
Stefano Sangiovanni
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Mind the gap: turnout gap of local and national elections in Germany from 2000–2019
Frederic Graeb
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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology

Youth Nonresponse in Panel Surveys: Investigating the Impact of Life Events
Camilla Salvatore, Peter Lugtig, Bella Struminskaya
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Nonresponse in surveys is particularly problematic among young people in both cross-sectional and panel studies. This article investigates the factors driving lower participation rates among young people in longitudinal surveys. We study whether nonresponse can be explained by young people experiencing more life events associated with disengagement from panel surveys. Using data from the Understanding Society panel in the United Kingdom, we employ a discrete-time multinomial logistic hazard model to study nonresponse across panel waves. Consistent with previous research, our analysis identifies lower education, unemployment, immigrant background, and residential circumstances as key predictors of nonresponse. Furthermore, we demonstrate that changes in employment status and (expectations of) residential relocation significantly contribute to predicting attrition among young participants, with age remaining a significant factor. Living with parents also plays an important role, as it is associated with a lower risk of non-contact.
Varying the Content of Political Science Surveys to Improve the Survey Experience and Data Quality of Politically Disengaged Respondents
Saskia Bartholomäus, Tobias Gummer
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Respondents’ survey experience affects their answering and participation behavior and, consequently, measurement and nonresponse errors. Political science surveys especially suffer from biased estimates of political attitudes and behavior. Improving respondents’ survey experience by offering a more interesting and varied questionnaire poses a possible solution to this problem. In this regard, we break new ground by investigating whether improving politically disengaged respondents’ survey experience by including non-political survey content enhances data quality with respect to measurement and nonresponse errors in political science surveys. For this purpose, we conducted two survey experiments in a probability- and a nonprobability-based panel that varied the content of a political science questionnaire. This study provides the first evidence that offering a varied questionnaire rather than a purely political one lowered or even diminished the gap in measurement and nonresponse errors between politically engaged and disengaged respondents.

Public Opinion Quarterly

AAPOR Presidential Address AAPOR Presidential Address 2026: Bearing Witness to This Moment
Jordon Peugh
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