Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cole, Alexandra

Titel

To Survey or Not to Survey: The Use of Exit Polling as a Teaching Tool1

Ist Teil von

• PS, political science & politics, 2003-04, Vol.36 (2), p.245

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In fact, a 'gentleman's agreement' among the major television networks not to call the winner in a state before balloting in that state ended was violated on Election Day 2000.2 Since then, the major networks have once again agreed never to violate such an agreement, and "NBC says it will support a bill that would create a national poll-closing time" (Christian Science Monitor 2000). Students at four different universities (California State University, Northridge; Tulane University; the University of Iowa, Iowa City and; the University of Wisconsin, Parkside), and in different types of political science classes (Research Methods, American Political Culture, Elections in America, Municipal Governments, and Introduction to American Politics), administered the same exit poll to registered voters on election day as part of their respective political science courses.