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Survey Project:

 

Policy Views of Academics

 

 

Principal investigator:           Daniel Klein

                                                Associate Professor of Economics

                                                Santa Clara University

                                                dklein@scu.edu

 

 

The survey contains 57 questions about 18 policy issues, voting behavior, and background variables.

 

During Spring 2003, 5486 surveys were sent out to members of academic associations.  Here are the response numbers (excluding blanks and adjusting for PO Returns, etc.):

 

 

Surveys

completed

Response

rate (%)

Anthropology

349

34.9

Economics

264

26.6

History

297

30.9

Phil. (pol./legal)

108

22.6

Political Science

309

31.0

Sociology

351

35.2

Total

1678

30.9

 

 

This website provides the survey documents and the survey control documents (below). 

 

Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern are working on a series of papers based on the data.  The papers will be posted here as they become available.

 

Eventually we will post here the complete dataset in an Excel file.

 

The survey was controlled and certified by Ms. Donna Perry, Assistant Dean, Administration/External Relations, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

 

Survey documents (pdf):

  1. The Survey
  2. The cover-letter that accompanied the survey
  3. The follow-up postcard 

 

Survey Control documents (pdf):

  1. “Controller’s Statement,” by Donna Perry
  2.   “Survey Process Description,” by Daniel Klein and Donna Perry
  3. “Survey Control Overview Table and Analysis,” prepared by Daniel Klein and confirmed and initialized line-by-line by Donna Perry
  4. “Daniel Klein’s Survey Procedure Statement,” by Daniel Klein
  5. “Irregulars Binder Manifest,” prepared by Daniel Klein and confirmed by Donna Perry

 

Research paper by Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern:

  1. "How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities? Survey Evidence from Six Fields":

Related work by Daniel Klein and coauthors:

Pdf link to the complete academic working paper, to appear in Academic Questions:
How Many Democrats per Republican at UC-Berkeley and Stanford? Voter Registration Data across 23 Academic Departments
By Daniel B. Klein and Andrew Western

The Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?
by Daniel B. Klein with Eric Chiang, Econ Journal Watch.

 Institutional Ties of Journal of Development Economics Authors and Editors
by Daniel B. Klein with Therese DiCola, Econ Journal Watch.

 

 

Daniel Klein’s Personal Homepage

 

 
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