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Pre-Election Polls - ASGV00858
Title: Volební modely
Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (21-KSOC)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2021
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Matouš Pilnáček
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Pre-election polls have repeatedly become the target of criticism for their inaccuracy and the possible influence on public opinion. The unexpected results of the 2016 US presidential election, the British referendum on leaving the EU and the British election in 2015 caused an increase in this criticism. The course aims to introduce the methodology of pre-election polls and show their real possibilities and limitations. Within the course, students will practically try the construction of various variants of pre-election polls and at the same time, some more advanced techniques of data analysis (calculation of confidence intervals, construction of weights, data imputation, a transformation of variables to observations etc.). In the second part of the course, we will discuss the social role of pre-election polls and some of their possible alternatives will be presented(wisdom of crowds, big data, betting markets etc.).
Last update: Pilnáček Matouš, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Splnění 4 z 6 průběžných úkolů. Čas na odevzdání vždy do následující středy 23:55 s jednou možností opravy (tři dny od ohodnocení). V případě pozdního odevzdání úkolu bez možnosti opravy.

Last update: Pilnáček Matouš, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
Literature - Czech

Literatura není povinná:

Crespi, I. (1988). Pre-Election Polling: Sources of Accuracy and Error. Russell Sage Foundation. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610441445

Durand, C. (2008). The Polls of the 2007 French Presidential Campaign: Were Lessons Learned from the 2002 Catastrophe? International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20(3), 275–298. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edn029

Fenwick, I., Wiseman, F., Becke, J. F., & Heiman, J. R. (1982). Classifying Undecided Voters in Pre-Election Polls. The Public Opinion Quarterly, 3, 383.

Gallup. (n.d.). Understanding Gallup’s Likely Voter Procedures for Presidential Elections. Gallup.Com. Retrieved 17 February 2017, from http://www.gallup.com/poll/111268/How-Gallups-likely-voter-models-work.aspx

Ganser, C., & Riordan, P. (2015). Vote expectations at the next level. Trying to predict vote shares in the 2013 German federal election by polling expectations. Electoral Studies, 40, 115–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2015.08.001

Graefe, A. (2019). Accuracy of German federal election forecasts, 2013 & 2017. International Journal of Forecasting, 35(3), 868–877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.01.004

Jennings, W., & Wlezien, C. (2018). Election polling errors across time and space. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 276–283. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0315-6

Kennedy, C., Blumenthal, M., Clement, S., Clinton, J. D., Durand, C., Franklin, C., McGeeney, K., Miringoff, L., Olson, K., Rivers, D., Saad, L., Witt, G. E., & Wlezien, C. (2018). An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States. Public Opinion Quarterly, 82(1), 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfx047

Kuru, O., Pasek, J., & Traugott, M. W. (2017). Motivated Reasoning in the Perceived Credibility of Public Opinion Polls. Public Opinion Quarterly, 81(2), 422–446. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfx018

Murr, A. E. (2016). The wisdom of crowds: What do citizens forecast for the 2015 British General Election? Electoral Studies, 41, 283–288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.018

Murray, G. R., Riley, C., & Scime, A. (2009). Pre-Election Polling: Identifying Likely Voters Using Iterative Expert Data Mining. Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(1), 159–171. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfp004

Pilnáček, M. (2020). Kdo přijde k volbám? Prediktory volební účasti z pohledu přístupu odůvodněného jednání. Naše společnost, 1(18), 33. https://doi.org/10.13060/1214438X.2020.1.18.516

Pilnacek, M., Tabery, P., Prokop, D., & Kunc, M. (2021). Apportioning Uncertain Voters in Pre-Election Polls in a Multi-Party System. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, edaa027. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaa027

Sturgis, P., Kuha, J., Baker, N., Callegaro, M., Fisher, S., Green, J., Jennings, W., Lauderdale, B. E., & Smith, P. (2017). An assessment of the causes of the errors in the 2015 UK general election opinion polls. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12329

Waldahl, R., & Aardal, B. (2000). The Accuracy of Recalled Previous Voting: Evidence from Norwegian Election Study Panels. Scandinavian Political Studies, 23(4), 373–389. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.00042

Last update: Pilnáček Matouš, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
Syllabus - Czech
1. Organizace kurzu a koncept volebního modelu
2. Mýlí se předvolební průzkumy? (USA 2016, UK 2015, Druhy chyb)
3. Reprezentativita souboru a vážení dat 1 - sociodemografika
4. Reprezentativita souboru a vážení dat 2 – minulé volební chování
5. Určování volební účasti 1 – záměr volební účasti
6. Určování volební účasti 2 – využití dalších proměnných
7. Určení volebního rozhodnutí 1 – váhající voliči, volební potenciál, volební mapa
8. Debata s Janem Herzmannem
9. Určení volebního rozhodnutí 2 (imputace nerozhodnutých voličů) a alternativy volebních modelů (wisdom of crowds, big data, Twitter, ekonometrické modely)
10. Debata s Michalem Sirovým
11. Otázka vlivu předvolebních výzkumů na voliče
12. Rezervní hodina
13. Rezervní hodina
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