Polling & Politics
For many observers – and indeed many who have worked with UK colleagues in progressing different business, societal and governmental projects – Britain has always been regarded as a very serious country, with a good...
The Search for Reliable Data in DR Congo
As a research organization specializing in data collection in complex and challenging environments, Forcier and its staff in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) watched with fascination as the electoral and vote-counting process unfolded...
The Calgary Polling Roundup: Why Did The Mayoral Polls Go Wrong
By Kathy Frankovic It’s not often that pre-election polls go horribly awry. If anything, pre-election polling has improved over time. In retrospect, the furor over polling in the 2015 UK election and the 2016 US...
Reflections on the US polling elections
By Kathy Frankovic It’s fair to say that the American election polls in 2018 were quite successful. Newspaper headlines and stories after the midterm elections for the most part praised them. However, their tone was...
How much freedom is there to conduct election polls throughout the world?
Perhaps not as much as you think By Kathy Frankovic ESOMAR and WAPOR (the World Association for Public Opinion Research) launched the sixth study last year to examine the limitations on the publications of election...
UK House of Lords Report on Polling – an assessment
On April 17 the UK House of Lords Committee on Political Polling and Digital Media released a report on polling in the United Kingdom. The Committee took action in response to what it perceived as...