Do election polls increase individual understanding of politics?

IF 1.2 4区 社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Science Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1080/00323187.2021.1931373
Ching-Hsing Wang, D. Weng
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ABSTRACT Election polls have been widely used to probe and understand the public’s political attitudes and behaviour. However, they might simultaneously motivate people to seek information about the questions they do not know when they are asked in the polls. Given that past studies have ignored the role of polls in motivating individual information seeking, this study aims to examine the effect of polls on individual knowledge of the electoral system. Specifically, this study addresses whether individuals’ participation in the election poll would increase their understanding of the electoral system of the legislative election in Taiwan. Using survey data from Taiwan’s Election and Democratisation Study (TEDS) 2016 presidential and legislative elections, this study finds that people who are asked questions about the legislative election in the first survey are more likely to provide correct answers in the second survey compared to their counterparts. The findings imply that election polls are not only tools for understanding public opinion on competing parties or candidates and policy issues, but also for stimulating individuals to understand politics.
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选举调查是否增加了个人对政治的理解?
摘要选举民调已被广泛用于调查和了解公众的政治态度和行为。然而,当人们在民意调查中被问及他们不知道的问题时,它们可能会同时激励人们寻求信息。鉴于过去的研究忽视了民意调查在激发个人信息寻求方面的作用,本研究旨在检验民意调查对个人对选举制度知识的影响。具体而言,本研究探讨个人参与选举投票是否会增加他们对台湾立法会选举制度的了解。利用台湾2016年总统和立法会选举与民主化研究(TEDS)的调查数据,本研究发现,与同行相比,在第一次调查中被问及立法会选举问题的人更有可能在第二次调查中提供正确答案。调查结果表明,选举民调不仅是了解公众对竞争政党或候选人和政策问题的看法的工具,也是激励个人理解政治的工具。
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