How powerful are polls in influencing election outcomes?
- Werner Krause and Christina Gahn argue that we need to pay more attention to how the media communicates the results of opinion polls to the public. Reporting methodological details, such as margins of error, can alter citizens’ vote choices on election day. This has important implications for elections around the world
| Author details: | Werner KrauseORCiDGND, Christina Gahn |
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| URL: | https://theloop.ecpr.eu/how-powerful-are-polls-in-influencing-election-outcomes/ |
| Title of parent work (English): | The LOOP : ECPR's Political Science Blog |
| Publisher: | European Consortium for Political Research |
| Place of publishing: | Colchester |
| Publication type: | Other |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2024/02/12 |
| Publication year: | 2024 |
| Release date: | 2024/05/27 |
| Tag: | Sebastian Kurz; elections; margins of error; opinion polls; politics and the media; polling; voters; voting; ÖVP |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Peer review: | Nicht ermittelbar |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC BY-ND - Namensnennung, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
