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Since the early 2000s, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) has become a widely popular method of conducting public opinion surveys in the United States. IVR surveys use an automated computer voice to ask survey questions and elicit responses in place of a live interviewer. Previous studies have shown that IVR polls conducted immediately before elections are generally accurate, but have raised questions as to their validity in other contexts. This study examines whether IVR polls generate measurably different levels of candidate support when compared to live interviewer polls, as a result of non-response bias owing to lower response rates in IVR surveys. It did so by comparing polling in 2010 U.S. gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections that was conducted using both live interviewers and IVR. The findings suggest that in general elections, IVR polls find fewer undecided voters compared to surveys conducted using live interviewers. In primary elections, IVR polls can show larger support than live interview polls for a more ideologically extreme candidate who has high levels of support among more opinionated and engaged voters. Implications are that journalists and other consumers of polling data should take into account whether a poll was conducted using IVR or live interviewers when interpreting results. IVR polls may tend to over-sample more engaged and opinionated voters, often resulting in smaller percentages of undecided respondents, and higher levels of support for specific candidates in certain contexts. / Master of Arts

The Internet is rapidly becoming an important part of a presidential candidate's media strategy. Specifically, a candidate's website has distinct implications and uses in the early stages of a presidential campaign. Using an eclectic approach, this research examines the campaign websites of the candidates for the U.S. Presidency in 2008. By examining the websites using content analysis, analog criticism, media criticism, and scenario analysis emerging trends become apparent and conclusions on their further implications can be drawn. This research presents two major conclusions on the affects of campaign websites on the early stages of a presidential campaign. First, the design structure and features available on the Internet could be used to give the user a feeling of direct connection with the campaign, which in turn could motivate political involvement. Second, a candidate's new media strategy and usage must match with the overarching rhetorical style of the rest of the campaign. These two major concepts serve as starting points for further academic research and a greater understanding of our changing democratic system. / Department of Telecommunications

Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2006 u.d.T.: Wirtschaftspopulismus : die Instrumentalisierung von Arbeitslosigkeit in Bundestagswahlkämpfen. Eine Analyse der Bundestagswahlkämpfe 1994, 1998 und 2002 am Beispiel des Themas Arbeitslosigkeit. / Literaturverz. S. 165 - 172

Thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Hannover, 2004. / Preface in German. Series designation and series numbering missing in the book. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-161).

Thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Hannover, 2004. / Preface in German. Series designation and series numbering missing in the book. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-161).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Title from screen (viewed on June 6, 2007) Department of Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-122)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem como objetivo empreender um estudo inicial sobre a Propaganda Partidária Gratuita, espaço disponibilizado pelo Estado brasileiro aos partidos políticos para que estes possam apresentar a si próprios e divulgar seus programas políticos. Segundo o levantamento feito para este trabalho, trata-se de um caso único no mundo, mas que vem sendo abordado apenas marginalmente pela Ciência Política do país. Dada a proximidade com o horário eleitoral, a análise foi feita tendo como base a literatura sobre campanhas políticas, de modo a verificar se processos a ela relacionados (em especial o de declínio partidário e a personalização da política) podem se aplicar ao objeto em questão. Para tanto, realizou-se um levantamento empírico das edições exibidas entre 2002 e 2007 de cinco siglas: PFL/DEM, PMDB, PSB, PSDB e PT. Nestes, foram observadas diferentes variáveis, como ênfases discursivas e temática dominante, bem como o conteúdo apresentado. Em função destes dados, oferece-se uma visão de como os programas são utilizados de modo geral e por cada partido, oferecendo ainda uma tipologia sobre seus usos. / This work aims to undertake an initial study on the Partisan Free Advertising, a public TV time available by the Brazilian State to political parties, to enable them to introduce themselves and promote their political agendas. According to the survey conducted, this is a unique case in the world, but that has been addressed only marginally by the Brazilian Political Science. Given the proximity to the election schedule, the analysis was based on the literature on political campaigns in order to verify that processes related to it (especially the decline of partisan politics and personalization of the politics) may apply to the object in question. Therefore, we carried out an empirical survey of the editions exhibited between 2002 and 2007 by five parties: PFL/DEM (Party of Liberal Front, today Democrats), PMDB (Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement), PSB (Brazilian Socialist Party), PSDB (Party Brazilian Social Democracy) and PT (Workers Party). In these different variables were observed as dominant thematic emphases and discursive as well as the content presented. In light of these data, it offers a vision of how the programs are used in general and by each party, still offering a typology on its uses.

Esta é uma tese centrada nas estratégias empregadas pelos eleitores para o processamento das informações sobre a política, no contexto da campanha presidencial brasileira de 2006. Propusemos, neste trabalho, um modelo estatístico para o processamento da informação sobre a política, construído a partir da contribuição de estudos realizados nos campos de conhecimento das ciências sociais, da economia, da psicologia cognitiva e da comunicação, e, sobretudo, a partir das evidências extraídas de nosso desenho de pesquisa. Este combinou métodos qualitativo, quantitativo e a análise das estratégias retóricas empregadas por candidatos e partidos políticos no Horário Gratuito de Propaganda Eleitoral (HGPE), elemento dinâmico de nosso estudo, por sintetizar os fluxos de informação no ambiente das campanhas políticas. Esse conjunto de abordagens metodológicas, foi empregado para o estudo de caso do eleitor belo-horizontino, inserido no complexo ambiente informacional das campanhas presidenciais. Com informações incompletas, o eleitor precisou escolher em quem acreditar, lidando com a incerteza dos resultados do pleito e com a incerteza em relação ao comportamento futuro dos atores, cioso de que as retóricas da campanha estavam orientadas para a persuasão. O nosso trabalho procurou mapear as estratégias empregadas pelos eleitores na seleção de temas do debate para a atenção e para o processamento das novas informações sobre a política, adquiridas em interações múltiplas ao longo da campanha. Essa complexa tarefa foi destinada à escolha de por quem ser persuadido. Procuramos responder, neste trabalho, a partir das evidências empíricas, várias preocupações deste campo de conhecimento, entre elas: 1) Em meio a tantos temas abordados na disputa entre partidos e candidatos, quais deles e por que o indivíduo escolhe para prestar atenção e acreditar? 2) Que variáveis intermedeiam e qual o seu peso nesse processo de interação com as novas informações para explicar a tomada de decisão? 3) As prioridades da agenda política do eleitor se alteram ao longo da campanha? 4) Os eleitores ampliam o repertório mais geral de informação sobre a política? 5) As percepções sobre avaliação de governo e em relação aos temas prioritários da agenda do eleitor se alteram ao longo da campanha? / This is a dissertation centered in the strategies used by voters to process political information during 2006 Brazilian presidential campaign. We seek to show a statistical model for processing information about politics built upon studies in the fields of social science, economy in the study of vote, cognitive science, communication and learning, and evidences of our field research. Our research designed combined qualitative and quantitative methods and also focus on the campaigning strategy of rhetoric employed by political parties and candidates in their propagandas exhibited in the Horário Gratuito de Propaganda Eleitoral (HGPE) (Brazilian electoral legislation gives to parties and candidates during 45 days before elections free time on television and radio. It is the aforementioned HGPE). Half of this free time distribution depends on competing parties representation in Congress.) This political propaganda was the dynamic element of our study. It synthetizes the information flows of campaigning environment. All together these methodological approaches were necessary to analyze a case study: voters from Belo Horizonte (Belo Horizonte is the capital of Minas Gerais, second Brazilian economy and third state in population.). With incomplete information, knowing that campaigns rhetorics were meant to persuade, uncertain about the elections output and also uncertain about the behavior of future elected, voters needed to choose who to believe. In our study, we tried to answer some concerns in this field of knowledge: 1) How and why voters from Belo Horizonte chose to pay attention to certain issues in 2006 Brazilian presidential campaign and ignore others? 2) What variables mediated voters interactions with new information? How much did these variables could explain voters decision? 3) Were voters political priorities agenda changed during the presidential political campaign? 4) Did voters learn about politics during the presidential political campaign? 5) Did voters evaluation about government and voters parties identification change during the presidential political campaign?

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem como objetivo empreender um estudo inicial sobre a Propaganda Partidária Gratuita, espaço disponibilizado pelo Estado brasileiro aos partidos políticos para que estes possam apresentar a si próprios e divulgar seus programas políticos. Segundo o levantamento feito para este trabalho, trata-se de um caso único no mundo, mas que vem sendo abordado apenas marginalmente pela Ciência Política do país. Dada a proximidade com o horário eleitoral, a análise foi feita tendo como base a literatura sobre campanhas políticas, de modo a verificar se processos a ela relacionados (em especial o de declínio partidário e a personalização da política) podem se aplicar ao objeto em questão. Para tanto, realizou-se um levantamento empírico das edições exibidas entre 2002 e 2007 de cinco siglas: PFL/DEM, PMDB, PSB, PSDB e PT. Nestes, foram observadas diferentes variáveis, como ênfases discursivas e temática dominante, bem como o conteúdo apresentado. Em função destes dados, oferece-se uma visão de como os programas são utilizados de modo geral e por cada partido, oferecendo ainda uma tipologia sobre seus usos. / This work aims to undertake an initial study on the Partisan Free Advertising, a public TV time available by the Brazilian State to political parties, to enable them to introduce themselves and promote their political agendas. According to the survey conducted, this is a unique case in the world, but that has been addressed only marginally by the Brazilian Political Science. Given the proximity to the election schedule, the analysis was based on the literature on political campaigns in order to verify that processes related to it (especially the decline of partisan politics and personalization of the politics) may apply to the object in question. Therefore, we carried out an empirical survey of the editions exhibited between 2002 and 2007 by five parties: PFL/DEM (Party of Liberal Front, today Democrats), PMDB (Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement), PSB (Brazilian Socialist Party), PSDB (Party Brazilian Social Democracy) and PT (Workers Party). In these different variables were observed as dominant thematic emphases and discursive as well as the content presented. In light of these data, it offers a vision of how the programs are used in general and by each party, still offering a typology on its uses.