SGER: DHS and NSF Collaboration: Expansion of the American National Election Study: Gauging the Public's Attitudes on Terrorism and Homeland Security

美国全国选举(ANES)的使命是通过提供支持丰富假设检验的数据来为选举结果的解释提供信息，最大限度地发挥方法的优势，衡量许多变量，并促进跨人、跨背景和跨时间的比较。规模最大、运行时间最长的ANES数据收集是在2008年选举之前和之后的几个月里进行的一个两波小组。这些调查是在受访者家中面对面进行的，是超过50年的时间序列的一部分。以前的研究提供了关于外交政策(近年来侧重于恐怖主义)、对政府的一系列感受和观点(可作为了解可能与国内恐怖主义有关的态度的基础)以及宗教与社会行动各方面之间的关系的重要信息。该项目通过允许调查在选举前和选举后的采访中提出更多问题来增强2008年的ANES。更广泛地说，这些数据收集增强了ANES时间序列，并提供了强有力和可信的基础，以便进一步了解准备情况、对某些群体(特别是与选举有关的群体和宗教)的态度等问题，进一步了解国内恐怖主义的可能根源以及国内对各种国土安全举措的支持差异。

SES- 0651271Arthur W. LupiaUniversity of Michigan, Ann ArborThe mission of the American National Election (ANES) is to inform explanations of election outcomes by providing data that support rich hypotheses testing, maximize methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons across people, contexts and time. The largest and longest running ANES data collection is a two-wave panel conducted in the months immediately before and after the 2008 elections. The surveys are conducted face-to-face in the respondent's home and are part of a time-series that expands over 50 years. Previous studies provide significant information on foreign policy (with an emphasis on terrorism in recent years), a range of feelings and perspectives about government (that could serve as a basis for understanding attitudes that are potentially related to domestic terrorism), and the relationship between religion and various aspects of social action. The project augments the 2008 ANES by allowing the survey to ask more questions on both the pre-election and post-election interviews. More broadly, these data collection enhances the ANES Time Series and provides a strong and credible basis from which to derive further understanding of issues such as preparedness, attitudes towards certain groups (particularly electorally relevant groups and religion), and further understandings of the likely roots of domestic terrorism and variations in domestic support for various homeland security initiatives..