Presidential Selection in the U.S. and France

这项研究调查利用了一个机会目标，通过提供部分支持来支付在法国收集数据的资金。这项研究涉及一项关于法国和美国在1988年两国选举中选择总统的合作研究。调查人员获得了法国领先的民意调查机构Sofres的合作，进行了选举后的法国全国抽样调查。将在法国使用的调查工具是基于过去在美国国家选举研究中使用的调查工具，并将在1988年11月的选举中再次使用。与法国合作的可能性提供了一个前所未有的机会，因为在过去，组织与法国学者在政治学方面的合作非常困难。Sofres小组将承担与该项目相关的总费用的40%，并同意首席调查人员提出的向更大的学术界提供数据的要求。这些数据将在该项目完成后一年内向公众公布，并将使众多学者有机会对其进行独立分析。

This research investigation exploits a target of opportunity by providing partial support to defray funding of data collection in France. The research involves a collaborative study of presidential selection in France and the United States in the 1988 elections in each country. The investigators have gained the cooperation of SOFRES, the leading public opinion polling organization in France, for conducting a post-election French national sample survey. The survey instrument to be employed in France is based on the survey instruments that have been used in U. S. National Election Studies in the past and that will be used again in the November, 1988, election. The possibility of collaborating with the French presents an unprecedented opportunity due to the fact that it has been exceedingly difficult, in the past, to organize collaborative work with French scholars in political science. The SOFRES group will underwrite forty percent of the total costs associated with the project and has agreed with the request made by the Principal Investigators to make the data available to the larger scholarly community. The data will be made available publicly within one year of the completion of this project and will afford numerous scholars the opportunity to undertake independent analyses of it.