[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/6/19

[Lisa Bryant]

Atkeson, Alvarez and Hall discuss confidence as a new measure in the
post-2000 election environment (and how to measure it) in this piece:
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/elj.2014.0293?src=recsys&journalCode=elj

Lisa



On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 11:13 AM Charles H Stewart <cstewart at mit.edu> wrote:

> I’ve worked on this question in a couple of published and unpublished
> papers, and I believe I’ve found every instance of the question (and its
> variants) being asked.  The year 2000 seems to be the first.  I just
> checked the Roper Center, and the first instance of such a question seems
> to have been asked by CBS/NYT in a survey in the field November 10-12, 2000.
>
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> Political scientists asked general questions about trust in government
> before then, but that’s not the same thing.
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>
> Charles
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> *From:* Law-election [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu]
> *On Behalf Of *Smith, Brad
> *Sent:* Monday, May 06, 2019 1:57 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/6/19
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> Does anyone know of data on public confidence in U.S. election results
> that predates 2000? Gallup has been asking voters since 2004, and there is
> some data for 2000, but I'm not familiar with any earlier polling on it.
> Any info would be appreciated.
>
> Here is Gallup' question since 2004:
>
> "How confident are you that, across the country, the votes will be
> accurately cast and counted in this year's election?"
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