Improving public opinion surveys : interdisciplinary innovation and the American national election studies / edited by John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the volume / John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw -- The American national election studies and the importance of new ideas / Jon A. Krosnick and Arthur Lupia -- Self-monitoring and political attitudes / Adam J. Berinsky and Howard Lavine -- Do confident people behave differently? The role of defensive confidence in partisan defection, attention to politics, and political participation / Julia Albarracín, Wei Wang, and Dolores Albarracín -- Basic personal values and political orientation / Shalom H. Schwartz -- Value constellations and American political life / Steven Hitlin and Katherine W.O. Kramer -- Generalized trust questions / Eric M. Uslaner -- An alternative measure of political trust: reconciling theory and practice / Joseph Gershtenson and Dennis L. Plane -- Measuring political interest / Danielle Shani -- Do we still need media use measures at all? / Scott L. Althaus and David H. Tewksbury -- Sociotropic voting and the media / Stephen Ansolabehere, Marc Meredith, and Erik Snowberg -- Perceptions of similarity and agreement in partisan groups / Eric A. Whitaker and John M. Fulwider -- Measuring everyday perceptions of the distribution of the American electorate / Charles M. Judd [and others] -- Measuring ambivalence about government / Michael D. Martinez, Jason Gainous, and Stephen C. Craig -- Gender stereotypes and gender preferences in American politics / Kira Sanbonmatsu and Kathleen Dolan -- In search of a religious left reexamining religiosity / Stephen T. Mockabee, Kenneth D. Wald, and David C. Leege -- Intense ambivalence: the new 2006 and 2008 ANES abortion attitude measures / L.J Zigerell and Heather Marie Rice -- Crime, perceived criminal injustice, and electoral politics / Ross L. Matsueda [and others] -- Attitudes toward the progressivity of taxes, corporate tax, and the estate tax / Ruben Durante and Louis Putterman -- How the ANES used online commons proposals and pilot study reports to develop its 2008 questionnaires / Jon A. Krosnick and Arthur Lupia -- Concluding thoughts / John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw.