Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Call for Questions for GLES online tracking

The online tracking is a (non-representative) cross-section survey within the scope of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), which aims to measure the change and stability of political attitude and behavior at the individual level from one election to the next. Since the federal election in 2009, an online survey has been implemented regularly in which 1.000 respondents are selected each time; as of now, from an offline recruited pool. The long-term online design is not only a valuable method to answer research questions, which cannot be studied in the framework of other GLES-components. It is also well suited for experimental designs. Furthermore, the component considers the multi-level-governance of Germany and includes federal, state-, and European elections.

The questionnaire time of each online survey is about 30 minutes and consists of a core questionnaire which is obligatory in any tracking survey. In addition to these core questions, variable topics are surveyed. Attached you can find a time schedule and an overview of the main questions and the variable question program of the second phase of the project grant. Within the scope of the variable modules, proposals for single questions and question modules are welcome. To guarantee comparability, all submissions must be structured as follows.

  1. Academic statement, relevance for study aim to explain voting behavior in Germany; the degree of methodical innovation, if applicable use of predetermined question program. (Data and/or questionnaires of earlier online-tracking surveys can be downloaded; see: http: http://www.gesis.org/wahlen/gles/daten-und- dokumente/daten/)

  2. Concepts for data analysis and publication of results

  3. Source of instruments, if applicable comparability with other studies

  4. Methodical quality of questions (if statements are possible)

  5. Analysis of instruments (if applicable filtering, experimental design)

The items 1 to 4 should not exceed 6.000 characters (without references). The recommended instruments should be described in item 5.

We will also accept recommendations concerning the time of implementation for submitted proposals and will try to consider these suggestions. The German Society for Electoral Studies (DGfW) will decide about the proposals. All applicants will be informed immediately about the decision. The selected proposals will be further developed and tested by the GLES project team in cooperation with the authors. The authors of accepted instrument proposals commit themselves to analyze data and to publish the results. This could be handled as a GLES working draft (for example on the basis of ANES Pilot Study Reports; see http://www.electionstudies.org/resources/ papers/pilotrpt.htm).

The pilot scheme of a call for questions within the scope of the GLES online tracking has by now been well-established. Therefore, we would like to open the study for external proposals again in the second phase of project grant (2012-2014). We provide the opportunity to submit proposals of single questions or topics (5 minutes at most). The tracking, which will be launched in September 2012, will be available for these submissions to a limited extent. In 2013 and 2014, online surveys will be continued quarterly. This call refers to all tracking studies in the second phase of the project grant.

For further requests please do not hesitate to contact us. Please submit your proposals to project member responsible for the online tracking: Ina Bieber (Goethe-University Frankfurt), e-mail: bieber@soz.uni-frankfurt.de by 21st May 2012.

Best regards,
Sigrid Roßteutscher on behalf of GLES

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