Attitudes Toward Electoral Accountability: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Principal Investigator(s): Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary: Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates attitudes about government accountability and their relationship to political participation in the United States. Research questions that can be explored using this learning guide include: whether beliefs about electoral accountability are related to beliefs about say in government, whether people who believe that e... (more info)

• These data are not available from ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners directly (via Attitudes Toward Electoral Accountability) for details on obtaining the data and documentation.

Summary:   Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates attitudes about government accountability and their relationship to political participation in the United States. Research questions that can be explored using this learning guide include: whether beliefs about electoral accountability are related to beliefs about say in government, whether people who believe that elections increase accountability for voters are more likely to keep informed about activity and public affairs, how many people believe government officials care about what they think, and whether people who believe that elections increase accountability for voters are more likely to vote. Crosstabulation is used in the analyses.

Subject Terms:   elections, instructional materials, political participation, public officials, social sciences, voter attitudes, voter expectations, voting behavior

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Data Collection Notes:

Other Data-Driven Learning Guides covering such topics as aging, gender, race, social class, politics, and health are available on ICPSR's Online Learning Center .