Additional Reading

Althaus, Scott L. 2003. Collective preferences in democratic politics: Opinion surveys and the will of the people. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Asher, Herbert. 2004. Polling and the public: What every citizen should know. 6th ed. Washington, DC: C. Q. Press.

Backstrom, Charles H., and Gerald D. Hursch. 1963. Survey research. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Bradburn, Norman M., and Seymour Sudman. 1988. Polls and Surveys: Understanding What They Tell Us. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Brehm, John. 1993. The phantom respondents: Opinion surveys and political representation. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

CBS News. 2006. Exit poll pioneer Warren Mitofsky Dies, September 3.

Crespi, Irving. 1989. Public opinion, polls, and democracy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Curtin, Richard, Stanley Presser, and Eleanor Singer. 2005. Changes in telephone survey nonresponse over the past quarter century. Public Opinion Quarterly 69:87-98.

Daves, Robert P., and Frank Newport. 2005. Pollsters under attack: 2004 Election incivility and its consequences. Public Opinion Quarterly 69:670-81.

Farnsworth, Stephen J., and S. Robert Lichter. 2005. The nightly news nightmare revisited: Network television’s coverage of the 2004 presidential election. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.

Fowler, Floyd J. Jr. 1984. Survey research methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Frankovic, Kathleen A. 1992. Technology and the changing landscape of media polls. In Media polls in American politics, ed. Thomas E. Mann and Gary R. Orren. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Frey, James H. 1983. Survey research by telephone. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Fried, Amy. 2006. The forgotten Lindsay Rogers and the development of American political science. American Political Science Review 100:555-61.

Keeter, Scott. 2006. The impact of cell phone noncoverage bias on polling in the 2004 presidential election.” Public Opinion Quarterly 70:88-98.

Klecka, William R., and Alfred J. Tuchfarber. 1974. Random digit dialing as an efficient method for political polling. The Georgia Political Science Association Journal 2:133-51.

Klecka, William R., and Alfred J. Tuchfarber. 1978. Random digit dialing: A comparison to personal surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly 42:105-14.

Ladd, Everett Carll, and John Benson. 1992. The growth of news polls in American politics. In Media polls in American politics, ed. Thomas E. Mann and Gary R. Orren. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Lindeman, Mark, and Rick Brady. 2006. Behind the controversy: A primer on U.S. presidential exit polls. Publicopinionpros.com. January. 

Meier, Norman C., and Harold W. Saunders, eds. 1949. The polls and public opinion. New York: Henry Holt.

Mitoksky, Warren J. 1991. A short history of exit polls. In Polling and presidential election coverage, ed. Paul J. Lavrakas and Jack K. Holley. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Mitofsky, Warren J. 1998. The Polls. Review: Was 1996 a worse year for polls than 1948? Public Opinion Quarterly 62:230-49.

Mitofsky, Warren J. 1999. “Pollsters.com.” The Public Perspective 10, no. 4: 24-26.

Mosteller, Frederick, Herbert Hyman, Philip J. McCarthy, Eli S. Marks, and David B. Truman. 1949. The pre-election polls of 1948—Report to the Committee on Analysis of Pre-election Polls and Forecasts. New York: Social Science Research Council.

Public Opinion Quarterly. 2003. Symposium: Election night 2000 in perspective. Public Opinion Quarterly 67:2-58.

Rogers, Lindsay. 1949. The pollsters: Public opinion, politics, scholarship, and democracy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Rogers, Theresa F. [1976] 1989. Interviews by telephone and in person: Quality of responses and field performance. In Survey research methods: A primer, ed. Eleanor Singer and Stanley Presser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Smith, Tom W. [1983] 1989. The hidden 25 percent: An analysis of nonresponse on the 1980 General Social Survey. In Survey research methods: A primer, ed. Eleanor Singer and Stanley Presser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Steeh, Charlotte G. [1981] 1989. Trends in non-response rates, 1952-1979. In Survey research methods: A primer, ed. Eleanor Singer and Stanley Presser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Traugott, Michael W., and Paul J. Lavrakas. 2004. The voter’s guide to election polls. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Waksberg, Joseph. 1978. Sampling methods for random digit dialing. Journal of the American Statistical Association 73:40-46.

Weisberg, Herbert F., and Bruce Bowen. 1977. Introduction to survey research and data analysis. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.

Weissberg, Robert. 2002. Polling, policy, and public opinion: The case against heeding the “voice of the people. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.