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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]

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.

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.

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.

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