American National Election Study, 1988: The Presidential Nomination Process [Super Tuesday]

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Label

American National Election Study, 1988: The Presidential Nomination Process [Super Tuesday]

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Miller, Warren E

Contributor

• National Election Studies

Author

• National Election Studies
• Miller, Warren E

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• candidates
• congressional elections
• domestic policy
• economic conditions
• foreign policy
• government performance
• national elections
• political affiliation
• political attitudes
• political campaigns
• political efficacy
• political issues
• political participation
• presidential elections
• primaries
• public approval
• public opinion
• public policy
• social networks
• social values
• survey
• trust in government
• voter expectations
• voter history
• voting behavior
• Economic history
• International relations
• Party affiliation
• Political planning
• Presidents -- Election

Genre

• survey

Summary

This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1952. The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. This study of the presidential nomination process in the United States focuses on the Super Tuesday primary elections held in 16 states on March 8, 1988. The pre-election wave for this data collection was in the field between January 17 and March 8, 1988. Questions include candidate recognition and evaluations, feeling thermometers and traits, assessment of each candidate's chances of winning his/her party's nomination and the November general election, attitudes on public issues, vote intention and choice, and respondent's age, race, education, occupation, labor union membership, income, and religious affiliation. Immediately following Super Tuesday, brief reinterviews were conducted that contained recognition and feeling thermometers on all candidates and traits of selected candidates. A full range of voting questions also was asked, including whether the respondent voted, in which primary and for which candidate, whom the respondent preferred to see each party nominate for president, and whom the respondent most wanted to see elected as president