AN ATTEMPT AT VALIDATING THE RESEARCH OF PRE-ELECTION PUBLIC OPINION BASED ON ELECTION RESULTS Cover Image

POKUŠAJ VALIDACIJE ISTRAŽIVANJA PREDIZBORNOG JAVNOG MNIJENJA NA TEMELJU REZULTATA IZBORA
AN ATTEMPT AT VALIDATING THE RESEARCH OF PRE-ELECTION PUBLIC OPINION BASED ON ELECTION RESULTS

Author(s): Vesna Lamza Posavec
Subject(s): Electoral systems, Evaluation research, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Pre-election public opinion; Election resultus;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the validity of public opinion research conducted in the period preceding the elections by the Institute for Applied Social Research (University of Zagreb) and for the House of Representativesof the Croatian Parliament,has been analysed. ln the course of the validation analysis suitability of different possibilities for determining the validity of the research results has been examined. Furthermore, some of the specific methodological difficulties which can reduce the validity of public opinion research, in our circumstances, and complicate the procedure of their validation, have been outlined.

  • Issue Year: 1/1992
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 231-244
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Croatian