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June 9, 2008 – Announcing the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study

 

PALO ALTO, California — June 9, 2008.

CCES (Cooperative Congressional Election Study)

Researchers at thirty universities have pooled their resources to create a very large sample national survey. Each research team has purchased a 1,000 person national sample survey, to be conducted in October and November of 2006 by Polimetrix. Each survey has approximately 120 questions. For each survey of 1,000 persons, half of the questionnaire is developed and controlled by each the individual research team, and half of the questionnaire is devoted to Common Content. Each button below links to the individual research teams and is identified by the names of the universities involved.

 

Common Content amounts to a 30,000 person survey that allows the group to measure the distribution of political attitudes and preferences within states and congressional districts. The core intellectual goal of the survey is to study representation and electoral competition and to demonstrate the workability of a large coordinated survey. In addition, groups of individual teams have pooled subsets of their teams’ own content to create Group Content, such as on religion and politics or on state public finances.

 

If you would like to register a team and join the project, if you are a visitor, or have comments for us please Register. To find out more about the study design, including the Sampling Design, Common Content, and Group Content, please click on Study Design. To find out who is involved please go to People. If you have any additional questions, Ask Us!

 

CCES is coordinated through the MIT Political Science Department and Polimetrix by Stephen Ansolabehere, Doug Rivers, and Sam Luks. Common Content was developed by Stephen Ansolabehere, Robert Erikson, Elisabeth Gerber, Donald Kinder, Wendy Rahn, Jeremy Pope, and John Sides. We thank John Lovett at MIT for his assistance and support.