AAPOR Award

TThe American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe AAPOR AWARD For Exceptionally Distinguished Achievementto Andrew Kohut As a brilliant media commentator on the nature and interpretationof poll findings, Andy Kohut has become the public face of opinionresearch to millions of Americans. Andy is     

Book Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presents the 2004 AAPOR BOOK AWARD to John R. Zaller For The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Cambridge University Press (1992) The Nature and Origins of     

Policy Impact Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presents the 2004 POLICY IMPACT AWARD to The Urban Institute For the Assessing the New Federalism Project AAPOR honors the Urban Institute for providing critical surveyson understanding     

Innovators' Award (Blumenthal and Franklin)

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe 2007 WARREN J. MITOFSKY INNOVATORS AWARD to Mark Blumenthaland Charles Franklin For Pollster.com Modern day public opinion polling in the United States has come     

Policy Impact Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe 2006 POLICY IMPACT AWARD to The UCLA Center for Health PolicyResearch and partners,     

AAPOR Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presents the AAPOR Award For Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement to Benjamin I. Page His many years of research on the relationship between the variousinputs into government and its policy outputs have contributedgreatly to the understanding of public opinion. He has made     

The Polls Trends: Public Reactions to Global Health Threats and Infectious Diseases

Over the past two decades, newly emerging infectious diseaseshave developed into major global health concerns, sparking intensemedia coverage, and triggering fears of a global outbreak amongpublic health experts and authorities. This article focuseson trends in American attitudes toward these newly emerged infectiousdiseases by analyzing poll data over the past 6 years aboutissues relating to avian flu, severe acute respiratory syndrome,West Nile virus, and anthrax. The polls show that Americans’attention to news coverage seemed to be event driven, peakingwhen there were new human or animal cases, and decreasing rapidlywhen the diseases seemed to have been contained. Americans’perceptions of threats were usually the highest in the earlystages of major outbreaks. The public became more complacentwhen the outbreaks seemed to be under control. Both behavioralchanges and general knowledge remained largely constant, suggestinga limited impact of the various informational and awarenesscampaigns by governmental agencies in the wake of these pandemics. Abbreviations: ABC, ABC News • ABC/WP, ABC News/Washington Post • AP/IPSOS, IPSOS-Public Affairs for Associated Press • CBS, CBS News • CBS/NYT, CBS News/New York Times • GALLUP, Gallup Organization • GALLUP/CNN/USA, Gallup Organization for CNN/USA Today • HARRIS/TIME/CNN, Harris Interactive for Time and CNN • ICR/HARVARD, International Communications Research for Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security • ICR/HARVARD-RWJF, International Communications Research for Harvard School of Public Health Project, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation • IPSOS/DC, IPSOS-Reid for Dittus Communications • NORC, National Opinion Research Center • OD/FOX, Opinion Dynamics for Fox News • PSRA/KAISER, Princeton Survey Research Associates for Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard School of Public Health • PSRA/NEWS, Princeton Survey Research Associates for Newsweek • PSRA/PEW, Princeton Survey Research Associates for Pew Research Center • PSRA/PMFMI, Princeton Survey Research Associates for Prevention Magazine/Food Marketing Institute     

Innovators' Award (Lupia and Mutz)

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe 2007 WARREN J. MITOFSKY INNOVATORS AWARD to Arthur Lupiaand Diana Mutz For The Time-Sharing Experiments in the SocialSciences Project (TESS) Beginning with     

Policy Impact Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe 2005 POLICY IMPACT AWARD to The RAND Corporation On behalf of the individuals     

Editorial introduction to the Special Issue

In March 2004, a major conference on community development inthe ‘new Europe’ was held in Budapest, Hungary,to mark the accession of a further ten nation states, most ofthem in the east and central European region, to the EuropeanUnion. The conference was sponsored by the International Associationfor Community Development (www.iacdglobal.org), in conjunctionwith the Combined European Bureau for Social Development (www.cebsd.org),the Hungarian Association for Community Development (kofe@kkapcsolat.hu),and the Community Development Journal (www.cdj.oupjournals.org).The initial outcome was the Budapest Declaration, the text ofwhich was included in the CDJ issue of October 2004 (39(4),423–429 – copies     

Innovators Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe 2005 INNOVATORS AWARD to Thomas B. Jabine, Miron L. Straf,Judith M. Tanur, and Roger Tourangeau For the Creation of the     

Conference Report

Proceedings of The Sixtieth Annual Conference of The AmericanAssociation for Public Opinion Research The 2005 conference of the American Association for Public OpinionResearch (AAPOR) was held May 12–15 at the FontainebleauHotel in Miami Beach and set records in several categories.First, there were 913 registrants, easily topping last year’srecord attendance of 843 in Phoenix (which was boosted by beinga World Association for Public Opinion Research year). Amongthese attendees were five Burns "Bud" Roper Fellows, whose expenseswere covered by Roper’s generous endowment to AAPOR. Second,there was also a record number of papers and authors—atotal of 318 oral presentations and 75 posters with     

Proceedings of the Fifty-Ninth Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research

The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)focused on "The Image of Public Opinion Research" as a record-breaking846 researchers gathered May 13–16, 2004 at its fifty-ninthannual conference at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resortin Phoenix, Arizona. The conference, held in conjunction withthe World Association for Public Opinion Research’s conference,centered on "The Image of Public Opinion Research," and helpedthe AAPOR Executive Council kick off a campaign to examine whatmany perceive to be an increasingly negative image of public     

Proceedings of the Sixty-Second Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research

The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)held its sixty-second annual conference during May 17–20,2007 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County Hotel in Anaheim, California. Attracting 825 attendees, the conference comprised 84 sessionsand three poster sessions dealing with methodological and substantiveissues in public opinion and survey research. Sessions addressedareas of research related to the interests of AAPOR members– methodology, nonresponse, sampling, voting and elections,to     

AAPOR Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe AAPOR AWARD For Exceptionally Distinguished Achievementto Harry O'Neill Harry O’Neill's     

Book Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe 2005 AAPOR BOOK AWARD     

Book Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe 2006 AAPOR     

AAPOR Award

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Presentsthe AAPOR AWARD For Exceptionally Distinguished Achievementto Norman H. Nie As a scholar, innovator, and inventor, Norman Nie