How do voters “think ideologically” in multiparty systems?
In POQ, Lachance & Treger find that Canadian voters use left–right labels as shortcuts to infer candidates’ positions, even when they don't fully align with their policy preferences.
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Does personal proximity to drug market participants fuel opposition to drug reform?
In POQ, Zizumbo-Colunga & López find evidence from 18 Latin American countries that suggests the opposite.
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Out now! The latest issue of POQ!
Read Volume 90, Issue 1, Spring 2026 here: academic.oup.com/poq/issue
Can LLMs assist in the reliance on closed-ended questions in surveys?
In POQ, DiGiuseppe et al. find that LLMs have the potential to unlock the benefits of pairwise comparisons to scale open-ended responses.
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Can training individuals on survey methodology boost their critical processing of polls?
Kuru compares three preemptive interventions and finds that “psychological inoculation” is particularly effective for critical evaluation of polls.
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How has media trust changed in the Americas in recent years?
In POQ, Collier, analyzing AmericasBarometer data from 2008 to 2023, shows that media trust declined across 20 countries throughout the Americas during that time.
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Do survey passwords in postal invitation letters affect response rates in an online survey?
In POQ, Haas et al. find evidence that longer and more complex passwords increase participation rates.
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Can we reduce bias in nonprobability samples of social media users?
In POQ, Pollard et al. show that propensity score weighting can reduce differences between samples of X users and the general population.
Does the gender and sexual identity shape public support for prospective judges?
In POQ, Stone & Yang find that Americans across all partisan backgrounds penalize LGBTQ judicial nominees, with transgender nominees facing the largest penalties.
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Did Dobbs have a chilling effect on survey responses?
In POQ, Kam & Marcellin find that women were less willing to disclose their pregnancy status in the nation's premier health survey (BRFSS), on the heels of the Dobbs decision.
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Have web surveys influenced party identification results?
In POQ, Dyck & Santucci find that, when measured with a forced-choice question option as opposed to a volunteered response, there are many more pure independents than previously thought.
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The debate over DHS funding is ongoing. How has opinion shifted on this topic in recent years?
In POQ, Ollerenshaw & Jardina find that opposition to federal spending on border security has dramatically increased among Democrats.
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A new paper with @kvelasco.bsky.social is now online at @poqjournal.bsky.social! Using a conjoint survey experiment with 1,650 U.S. citizens, we ask, how do Americans take sexual orientation into account when evaluating immigrants' deservingness for admission?
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Can moral reframing increase favorability towards vaccines?
DeMora et al. test the impact of moral reframing among Republicans with messaging that connected vaccines to patriotism. For the majority, it holds the potential to fail or backfire.
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How do Americans view the increase in lesbian and gay migrants?
Hoffman & Velasco find that Americans overall give no preference to lesbian and gay migrants; however, Democrats, atheists, and lesbian and gay Americans find them more deserving.
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In the past, Republicans had more trust in scientists than Democrats. This is no longer the case.
In POQ, Schulam et al. identify demographic changes in political parties as a source of polarized trust in the scientific community.
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Perceptions of US party ideology are not shaped by elites in Congress.
In POQ, Warner uncovers that, as voters have sorted ideologically by party, they now also see the parties as more distinct—and extreme—than they would based on policy alone.
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Support for financial restitution after police violence differs.
In POQ, Israel-Trummel & Streeter uncover that, regardless of race-gender identity, Black respondents are significantly more likely to say the detainee deserves restitution.
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Voters want a justice system that is less cruel.
In POQ, Yogev finds that progressive politicians, such as DAs, are perceived as abandoning accountability for offenses like shoplifting and drug usage, they invite a political backlash.
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Do homophobia and sexual prejudice still exist in tolerant societies?
In POQ, Ortega & Bosco's new study reveals how non-traditional relationships continue to be stigmatised in parenting contexts, even in seemingly liberal societies.
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What shapes public support for military withdrawals?
In POQ, Silverman & Fealing show that framing effects by pollsters can seriously distort public opinion about ending wars and "going home."
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Does expertise affect conservatives' authoritarian predisposition?
Federico et al. find a correlation between conservatives' ability to match psychological needs with political positions, i.e., expertise, and authoritarian predisposition.
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Does news about a more diverse Congress change how Americans see democracy?
In POQ, Olson et al. find that diversity boosts Democrats’ trust in Congress, has no effect on Republicans, and does not weaken support for democratic norms.
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Partisanship has positive and negative contributions to representative democracies.
In POQ, Kasper & Bakker review Bankert's book, which explores how we can amplify the positive impacts while mitigating the negative ones.
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How does the gender of an interviewer affect responses?
Jones & Mitchell test interviewer gender effects and find that men provide desirable political responses to men interviewers, and provide desirable social responses to female interviewers.
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Weren't able to attend the @aapor.bsky.social conference this year?
In POQ, Kreuter's presidential address discusses how AI will transform polls, surveys, and the measurement of public opinion.
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Chinese citizens largely internalize regime narratives.
In POQ, Han et al. offer an alternative survey method for studying public opinion, using word association to examine Chinese citizens’ attitudes toward the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Democrats and Republicans who both toil in bad jobs see their labor policy preferences align.
In POQ, Lyon & Schneider explore how working conditions affect views on labor policy. As working conditions deteriorate, partisanship decreases.
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Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research!
Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc...
Why do some union members vote Republican?
In POQ, Macdonald analyzes how workplace political discussion affects voting behavior among union members. More frequent workplace political discussion is associated with union members voting Democrat.
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