Polling & Politics
By Finn Raben, David Smith and Ijaz Gilani Political opinion polling has recently come in for some very heavy criticism, in different countries around the world; and yet this criticism continues to often be one-dimensional, and...
The only poll that counts is the one on Election Day?
Can we expect the US 2016 polls to be any good? The American polling community is no stranger to controversy during hard-fought election campaigns, pollsters often have serious arguments about appropriate methods (such as whether...
Behavioural Polling: The UK Election
Leigh Caldwell looks at the UK election and examines what happened with the UK opinion polls...
How To Solve a Problem like Tactical Voting
Zenel Batagelj of Valicon looks at the 2011 Slovenian general election, which saw an unprecedented level of tactical voting and a very surprising result. How can research organisations identify the indicators and ensure that their...