2014 Cooperative Election Study

合作选举研究是一个数据基础设施项目，涉及来自70多个不同学术机构的研究团队的合作。 总的来说，这些研究团队在2006年对35，000名成年人进行了全国性调查，2008年为37，000人，2010年为54，000人，2012年为55，000人，其中部分资金来自NSF。 每个希望参与该项目的研究小组都从同一家公司购买了1,000人的抽样调查。 每个小组决定其调查中的一半问题。 内容的另一半，公共内容，是由一个设计委员会创建的，从参与的团队中抽取。 公共内容由每个团队都想衡量的问题或具有广泛兴趣并需要非常大样本的问题组成。 因此，该项目的领域尽可能多的有团队，也产生了一个单一的大样本调查，包括共同的内容。 2006年共有35个小组，进行了35次小组调查，每次抽样1 000人，一次共同调查涉及35 000个案件。 通过使用模块，调查涵盖了各个团队寻求回答的广泛研究主题。 研究人员利用其小组模块，对没有适当公共使用数据的特定主题和问题进行标准调查研究。 其他人使用他们的模块进行实验，包括政治广告、候选人图片、经济信息和其他处理方法。 自成立以来，这项调查已经产生了100多篇期刊文章和几十本书中出现的研究。 其中包括在该学科的顶级期刊上发表的十几篇文章，以及法律，社会学，统计学和经济学方面的文章。 利用这些数据的研究集中在各种各样的主题，包括选举，投票行为，公众舆论，政党和两极分化，对战争和其他军事干预的意见。该调查有助于建立和维持一个对州和国家选举，调查设计和公众舆论感兴趣的研究人员网络。 参与者包括研究生和本科生，他们通常无法获得这种规模的调查。 这些参与者发展研究技能，特别是在调查问卷设计领域，并产生进一步的研究思路，可以通过这种或其他工具进行。 此外，参与该项目的学者将继续使用这些数据来开发与调查有关的教育材料，这些材料可以作为政治学本科生和研究生课程的一部分广泛采用。

The Cooperative Election Study is a data infrastructure project involving the collaboration of research teams from over 70 different academic institutions. Collectively, these research teams have fielded national surveys of 35,000 adults in 2006, 37,000 in 2008, and, with partial funding from NSF, 54,000 in 2010 and 55,000 in 2012. Each research team that wishes to be involved in the project purchases a 1,000 person sample survey from the same firm. Each individual team determines half of the questions on its survey. The other half of the content, Common Content, is created by a design committee, drawn from the participating teams. Common Content consists of questions that every team would like to measure or questions that are of broad interest and require a very large sample. The project, thus, fields as many as the there are teams and also produces a single large sample survey that consists of the Common Content. With 35 teams in 2006, there were 35 individual team surveys each with a sample of 1,000 and a single common survey of 35,000 cases. The survey, through the use of modules, encompasses a vast range of research topics that individual teams seek to answer. Researchers have used their team modules to conduct standard survey research on particular themes and questions for which appropriate public use data are not available. Others have used their modules to conduct experiments with political advertisements, pictures of candidates, information about the economy, and other treatments. Since its inception, the survey has produced studies that have appeared in over 100 journal articles and dozens of books. These include over a dozen articles that appeared in the top journals in the discipline as well as articles in law, sociology, statistics, and economics. Studies utilizing this data have focused on a wide variety of topics including elections, voting behavior, public opinion, political parties and polarization, the opinion on wars and other military interventions.The survey has helped to create and sustain a network of researchers interested in state and national elections, survey design, and public opinion. Participants have included graduate students and undergraduates who not normally have access to surveys of this size. These participants develop research skills especially in the area of questionnaire design, and generate further research ideas that can be pursued through this or other vehicles. Additionally, the scholars involved in this project will continue to use the data to develop educational material relating to the survey that can be adopted widely as part of Political Science undergraduate and graduate curricula.