Partisan Bias in Surveys
By John G. Bullock, Gabriel S. Lenz. Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print), 2019
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If citizens are to hold politicians accountable for their performance, they probably must have some sense of the relevant facts, such as whether the economy is growing. In surveys, Democrats and Republicans often claim to hold different beliefs about these facts, which raises normative concerns. However, it is not clear that their divergent survey responses reflect actual divergence of beliefs. In this review, we conclude that partisan divergence in survey responses is often not due to sincere, considered differences of belief that fall along party lines—but determining what it is due to is difficult. We review the evidence for possible explanations, especially insincere responding and congenial inference. Research in this area is still nascent, and much more will be required before we can speak with precision about the causes of partisan divergence in responses to factual questions.
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2019, background): “…occurs because some proportion of conservatives are reporting lower AOTE simply because they are resisting the framing or wording of the questions (or perhaps the source of the questions – for more on insincere responding in the context of partisan bias in surveys, see Bullock & Lenz, 2019).”