The book studied different U.S. presidents through the year 1948. NES was designed to trace voting patterns and assess why a citizen decides to vote for a particular candidate. CPS also hosts the Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research, which claims status as the largest archive of social data in the world. The repository includes data on social behavior, health issues, public opinion and government data. Almost 370 universities pay a fee to have access to this data.
University students can access the data from the institute for independent research.
These data sets normally cost millions of dollars while the census costs billions, but we put the data in the student's hands to use. Zimmerman explained the relationship between CPS studies and the use of research in undergraduate classrooms. There are three choices. Despite varying attitudes of University professors in utilizing research, Zimmerman said he felt that the students definitely benefit from the latest research. Center for Group Dynamics Kurt Lewin fled from Nazi Germany during World War II and relocated to the University of Iowa.