Collaborative Research: American National Election Studies (ANES) 2009-2013

为什么美国要在选举日这天投票？美国国家选举研究(ANES)的核心使命是通过提供支持丰富假设检验的数据来解释选举结果，最大限度地发挥方法的优越性，衡量许多变量，并促进跨人、跨背景和跨时间的比较。ANES服务于这一使命，通过普通公民的眼睛为研究人员提供对政治世界的看法。这些数据是至关重要的，因为这些公民的行为决定了选举结果。这项研究在接下来的四年里继续着ANES的使命，但以比以前更好的方式。它建立在ANES历史的基础上，使该项目成为几代社会科学家的宝贵资源。与《澳大利亚国家经济新闻》《时代》系列报道中以往的总统选举一样，将通过对具有全国代表性的成年人样本进行面对面访谈，在选举前和选举后进行总统年研究。这项研究将包括特定于2012年选举的问题，以及补充ANES时间序列的问题，该时间序列目前已进入第六个十年。此外，学者们将能够通过在线公共空间的竞赛在工具上添加问题，这是对以前的ANES奖的创新。与以前的ANES奖一样，这个项目继续在数据收集过程以及对实质性主题的研究方面提供创新。关于前者，将在面对面时间序列的同时进行一项基于互联网的平行调查。这将允许在两种方法之间进行模式比较。关于后者，项目将在中期选举期间和总统选举前的初选期间进行更多基于电话和互联网的调查。这些研究的细节将由一系列学者决定。通过生成高质量的大型多方面数据集，ANES将使研究人员能够学习关于政治世界的新的重要教训。这些数据将被广泛和快速地分发，以服务于数千名学者，并用于世界各地的课堂，以丰富研究和教育。ANES将帮助全国了解自己，探索投票行为和选举结果的原因和后果。有了这些知识，政策将更好地为培育和完善其政府体系做好准备。

Why did America vote as it did on Election Day? The core mission of the American National Election Study (ANES) is to inform explanations of election outcomes by providing data that support rich hypothesis testing, maximize methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons across people, contexts and time. The ANES serves this mission by providing researchers with a view of the political world through the eyex of ordinary citizens. Such data are critical, because these citizens' actions determine election outcomes.This research continues the ANES mission for the next four years, but in new and better ways than before. It builds on an ANES history that has mde the project a valuable resource to generations of social scientists. As has been true for past presidential election in the ANES times series, a presidential year pre- and post-election study will be conducted using face-to-face interviewing of a nationally representative sample of adults. This study will include questions specific to the election of 2012 and also questions that augment the ANES time series, which is now in its sixth decade. In addition, scholars will be able to add questions onto the instrument through competitions in the Online Commons, which was an innovation of the previous ANES award.Like previous ANES awards, this project continues to provide innovations in the data collection process as well as the study of substantive subjects. With regards to the former, a parallel internet based survey will done in conjunction with the face-to-face time series. This will allow for a mode comparison between the two methods. With regards to the latter, project will conduct additional phone and internet based surveys during the midterm election period and the primary season leading up to the presidential election. The specifics of these studies will be determined by an array of scholars.By generating large multifaceted datasets of high quality, the ANES will equip researchers to learn new and important lessons about the world of politics. These data will be distributed widely and quickly to serve thousands of scholars and to be used in classrooms around the world to enrich research and education. The ANES will help to inform the nation about itself, exploring the causes and consequences of voting behavior andelectoral outcomes. With such knowledge, the policy will be better equipped to nurture and refine its system of government.