Public opinion research in emerging democracies
Subtitle: are the processes different?
By: Robert Mattes
Contributors: University of Cape Town. Centre for Social Science Research
Series: CSSR working paper -- no. 183; CSSR working paper -- no. 183.
Publisher: Centre for Social Science Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rondebosch
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
ISBN-13: 9781770111219
Subjects: Social surveys; Methodology; Public opinion polls
Description: This paper outlines the larger methodological, logistical and political challenges confronting survey researchers in emerging democracies in developing country contexts, particularly in Africa. Overcoming these challenges often means that comparative social scientific surveys of public opinion are designed, executed, and received in very different ways than in the West. But rather than simply seeing these differences as blemishes that need to be gradually ameliorated, we may have much more to learn from the globalization of public opinion research than the simple accumulation of more data from exotic settings.
Notes: "February 2007."

"Forthcoming as chapter four in the Handbook of public opinion research (Sage Publications Ltd.), edited by Wolfgang Donsbach & Michael Traugott."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 16-17).