I checked 7 public opinion journals on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period July 21 to July 27, I found 5 new paper(s) in 3 journal(s).

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Impunity and coordination under polarization: public legitimacy and anti-corruption enforcement
Carlos Pereira, Mariana Furuguem, Frederico Bertholini
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The lack of coordination among accountability institutions is widely recognized as a driver of elite impunity in democratic systems. At the same time, enhanced coordination among prosecutors, judges, and enforcement agencies can raise concerns about due process and judicial impartiality. This article examines how political polarization shapes citizens' evaluations of institutional coordination in anti-corruption efforts. Using Brazil's Lava Jato operation as an empirically salient and ideologically charged context, we field a web-based survey experiment that assesses public support for a hypothetical legislative reform designed to increase coordination among accountability institutions while explicitly acknowledging its potential legal trade-offs. We show that citizens broadly support coordination even when informed of possible risks to defendants' rights. However, when coordination is explicitly associated with Lava Jato, ideological polarization structures these evaluations: right-wing respondents become more supportive of coordination, while left-wing respondents become more skeptical. We argue that polarization shifts the object of legitimacy from judicial outcomes to institutional design, transforming coordination itself into a contested political object. The findings identify a mechanism through which polarization constrains the public legitimacy—and, thus, the political feasibility—of institutional reforms aimed at combating corruption.

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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Subnational electoral accountability in multilevel emerging democracies. Gubernatorial voting behavior in Argentina
Germán Lodola, Tomás Ciocci Pardo
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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.
The Relevance of Internet-Related Characteristics in Explaining Online Panel Participation and Designing Nonresponse Adjustments. Evidence from a Mixed-Mode Experiment in Recruiting A Probability-Based Online Panel
Jessica M E Herzing, Barbara Felderer
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The transition to online data collection in social science research offers benefits such as lower costs and faster data collection, but also brings challenges, particularly in terms of nonresponse bias related to digital inequality characteristics. People with less pronounced Internet-related characteristics and thus low digital skills or privacy concerns are often unwilling to participate in online panels, which is often a source of bias in survey results. Using data from the 2018 German Internet Panel recruitment experiment, we investigate whether offering an offline recruitment mode attracts respondents with less pronounced Internet-related characteristics, whether these characteristics affect online panel participation, and how including Internet-related characteristics in nonresponse weighting can help improve nonresponse adjustments. Our results show that mixed recruitment strategies that offer a paper-based recruitment survey initially attract individuals with less salient Internet-related characteristics, thereby mitigating their underrepresentation in surveys that offer only an online recruitment survey. In addition, the inclusion of Internet-related characteristics in the nonresponse weighting of the online panel improves estimates for several substantive variables.