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The author reflects on the points of Kurt Lang in his work on the function of public opinion polls. He views on the issues which were not expressed but applicable to the discussion engendered by Lang. Also, the author examines the representativeness of the expressions of public opinion, and its representation in policy or legislation.

This study leverages a survey experiment in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election to evaluate how partisan biases, poll results, and their methodological quality interact to shape people's assessments of polling accuracy and electoral expectations. In a nationally representative sample, we find that individuals disproportionately find polls more credible when their preferred candidate is leading. Partisan biases are mitigated when the polls themselves vary in objective indicators of quality: while more educated respondents are more likely to identify high-quality polls accurately, low education respondents' bias was reduced when they encountered polls with varying methodological quality. Finally, these moderators influence respondents' electoral expectations as well. We discuss the implications for journalistic coverage of polls, public opinion, and political polarization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses various reports published within the volume 21, number four issue of the "International Journal of Public Opinion Research," including one on the impact of Internet use in China on the basis of three surveys conducted in 2003, 2005, and 2007 in a set of major metropolitan areas, another on a longitudinal analysis of the shifting levels of political knowledge in the Danish electorate, and another one on a comparative analysis of journalists' views concerning the use of polls in their work.

The author reflects on the developments of the "International Journal of Public Opinion Research." It views on the accomplishments of Wolfgang Donsbach during his period as managing editor of the journal which contributed a higher growth of the journal. Also, the author cites the nomination of professor Peter Neijens for the journal's editor.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Silke Adam on how and why European issues are debated differently in different countries and another by Wayne Wanta and Yusuf Kalyango Jr. on the coverage of twenty African nations in the U.S. media.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one about the hostile media perception in the regulated press system and another on how genes and the environment affect behavioral characteristics.

The article discusses the topics published within the issue, including one on the effectiveness of inoculation strategies in Taiwan and another on the evaluation of the concept of opinion leaders to rural South Africa.

This article presents an introduction to the volume 19, number 1, 2007 issue of "International Journal of Public Opinion Research."

The author reflects on the changes in the structure and staffing of the editorial team of the "International Journal of Public Opinion Research."

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses an article on the determinants of attitudes toward Muslims in five countries by Richard Wike and Brian J. Grim, the impact of the U.S. political comedy show "The Daily Show" on the attention of television viewers towards political issues by Xiaoxia Cao, and the effects of individual level factors and media frame diversity on audience frames by Huiping Huang.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one on how competing frames set by the U.S. government and by the U.S. media influenced the perception of the issue by the public and facilitated political action, the role of perceptual phenomena in the agenda setting processes, and the interdependence of attitudes with other variables.

This article introduces the journal with a discussion of its contents, which include historical work by Alejandro Moreno and Manuel Sánchez-Castro, empirical research by Francis L. F. Lee, and methodological work by Marek Fuchs.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one by Jorg Matthes on the impact the need for orientation has on agenda setting and another by Erik Nisbet on political participation.

The article introduces topics in this issue of "International Journal of Public Opinion" such as the accuracy of polls in the 2007 presidential campaign in France, media attention on the 2005 parliamentary elections in Germany, and factors that influence when voting decisions are made.

This article discusses various topics published within the issue including an article on the accuracy of pre-election estimates of election outcomes and an article about public opinion of scientific issues.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Peter Neijens and Philip van Praag on the dynamics of opinion formation in popular referenda in the Netherlands and another by Vincent Price and Natalie Jomini Stroud on the research of public attitudes toward polls in the U.S.

A preface for the September 2006 issue of the periodical is presented.

The article provides an overview of the articles published in the June 2006 issue of the "International Journal of Public Opinion." An article by Patricia Moy looks for priming rather than agenda-setting side effects, that is people's use of features of media coverage for their own decisions. The experience of Norwegian researchers made with telephone panels as an alternative to exit polls on election day is also related. The authors establish an appearance of then president candidate George W. Bush on the television program "The David Letterman Show," changed the criteria viewers used when making decisions on whom to vote for.

The article examines different issues related to the publishing of the "International Journal of Public Opinion Research (IJPOR)." One of the issues that would gain prominence in future is online access to journal articles and its implications for authors' rights and publishers' businesses. The editors of IJPOR have decided on a 24-months embargo on "post-prints." A post-print is defined as the author's final draft of a manuscript as accepted for publication by a journal, but before it has undergone the copy editing and proof correction process. If authors choose to make a version of their accepted article freely available, shortly after the paper is published in a journal, this would obviously hamper journal subscriptions. Several journals are using an online submission system where authors, reviewers, editors and the publisher communicate exclusively via a special web site. The editors of IJPOR have not favored the introduction of such a system, since it was felt that the readiness of referees to review manuscripts might be affected by putting too much burden on them and make it psychologically easier for them to decline by just hitting a "no" button.

Presents an introduction to the March 2005 issue of the "International Journal of Public Opinion Research."

Presents the author's views on the journal "International Journal of Public Opinion Research." Information that according to scholar Edmund Lauf the journal is the most international mass communication journal among more than 40 communication journals; Article on an interesting historical review of a part of sociologist Robert Merton's work related to communication research; Views on other articles published in the journal.

The article reports that the effects of lawmaking on public opinion are not as frequently studied as the restrictions that public opinion puts on legislative initiatives. The latter is the subject of Rachel Meneguello's study of "Government Popularity and Public Attitudes to Social Security Reform in Brazil." She looks at reform measures initiated by President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, and finds that a government supported by the political left can implement reforms in the neo-liberal vein without embarrassing itself or estranging its supporters. The condition is, of course, that the government is a popular one, and that it acts largely in a manner that corresponds to people's expectations. Meneguello's analysis mostly draws on a June 2003 survey of the Brazilian population, but she also looks at the development of Brazilian politics over the last 20 years, and especially at the ups and downs of presidential popularity since 1995. Public opinion research, if it considers the media at all, is accustomed to understand media content as an independent variable in the process of opinion formation.

Presents an introduction to various articles published in the December 2004 issue of "International Journal of Public Opinion Research."