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World Association for Public Opinion Research
Abbreviation WAPOR
Formation 1947
Type Professional association
Membership > 450
President Michael Traugott
Website http://www.unl.edu/wapor/

The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) is an international professional association of researchers in the fields of communication and survey research. It is a member organization of the International Social Science Council.[1]

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[edit] History

Established in 1947 at the Second International Conference on Public Opinion Research held in Williamstown, Massachusetts[2][3] as the World Congress on Public Opinion Research, the association acquired its current name in 1948, at the Third International Conference on Public Opinion Research.[4] In 1953, it became the sole nongovernment consultant organization to UNESCO in the field of polling.[2]

Its current president is Thomas Petersen (Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach) and the vice president is Tom W. Smith (National Opinion Research Center (NORC), at the University of Chicago).[5] Among the former presidents of WAPOR are Juan Linz, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Robert Worcester and Seymour Martin Lipset.[6]

[edit] Membership

Over time, WAPOR's membership has grown and become more international. In 1956, roughly a decade after its founding, the association had 158 members from about 20 countries;[2] by 1962, these figures had risen to approximately 200 and more than 30, respectively.[7] In 1970, WAPOR had more than 300 members from 41 countries.[8]

As of 2007, the association has over 450 members from research institutes and universities in over 50 countries.[9]

[edit] Activities

WAPOR sponsors the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a social science journal published by Oxford University Press.[10]

The association also holds an annual conference in North America in even-numbered years, in cooperation with the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and in Europe in odd-numbered years, in cooperation with the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research.[11]

Since 1981, WAPOR offers the Helen Dinerman Award – created to honour sociologist Helen Dinerman – to individuals who have made "significant contributions to survey research methodology".[12] Prior recipients include social scientists Philip Converse, Louis Guttman,[13] Roger Jowell,[14] Elihu Katz,[15] Juan Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset,[16] Robert K. Merton,[17] Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann,[18][19] Sidney Verba,[20] Robert Worcester, and Daniel Yankelovich.[21]

[edit] Influence

Richard Morin, former polling director of The Washington Post, described WAPOR as "the leading professional association of pollsters working outside the United States".[22] Herbert Weisberg, a political scientist at The Ohio State University and former president of the Midwest Political Science Association,[23] further credited WAPOR with contributing to the internationalization, and thereby the professionalization, of the field of survey research.[24]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "International Social Science Council". World Association for Public Opinion Research. http://www.unl.edu/wapor/social_science.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-03. 
  2. ^ a b c Dodd, Stuart C. (Spring 1957). "The World Association for Public Opinion Research". Public Opinion Quarterly 21 (1): 179–84. doi:10.1086/266698. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-362X(195721)21%3A1%3C179%3ATWAFPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  3. ^ Hart, Clyde W., and Don Cahalan (Spring 1957). "The Development of AAPOR". Public Opinion Quarterly 21 (1): 165–73. doi:10.1086/266696. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-362X%28195721%2921%3A1%3C165%3ATDOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  4. ^ Rokkan, Stein (ed) (1979). A Quarter Century of International Social Science: Papers and Reports on Developments, 1952-1977. p. 279. OCLC 7575815. http://books.google.com/books?id=VwIwAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&q=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&pgis=1. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  5. ^ "Executive Council". World Association for Public Opinion Research. http://www.unl.edu/wapor/executive%20council.htm. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  6. ^ "History". World Association for Public Opinion Research. http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/history.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-03. 
  7. ^ Encyclopedia Americana, 22, Americana Corporation, 1965, pp. 774, http://books.google.com/books?id=C_lLAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&q=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&pgis=1, retrieved on 2007-11-02 
  8. ^ Warren E. Preece, editor. (1974), Encyclopædia Britannica, 15, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., pp. 214, ISBN 0852292902, http://books.google.com/books?id=OMgqAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&q=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&pgis=1, retrieved on 2007-11-02 
  9. ^ "Membership Information". World Association for Public Opinion Research. http://www.unl.edu/wapor/membership_info.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  10. ^ "Oxford Journals: Social Sciences – Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research". Oxford Journals. 2007. http://ijpor.oxfordjournals.org/. Retrieved on 2007-02-21. 
  11. ^ "Conferences and Seminars". World Association for Public Opinion Research. http://www.unl.edu/wapor/conferences.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  12. ^ "Awards and Prizes". World Association for Public Opinion Research. http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/awards.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  13. ^ "Louis Guttman". World of Sociology. Thomson Gale. 2005-2006. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/louis-guttman-soc/. Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 
  14. ^ "Annual Research Report, 2005-2006" (PDF). Department of Sociology, City University London. 9. http://www.city.ac.uk/sociology/dps/SOCIOLOGY_RESEARCH_REPORT_2005-06.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 
  15. ^ Dennis, Everette E., and Ellen Wartella (eds) (1996). American Communication Research: The Remembered History. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-8058-1744-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=Z9n1HICzx4oC&pg=PA195&dq=%22Helen+Dinerman+Award%22&sig=lAYhXFmk82UTzO6cjGyAAgRp51M. Retrieved on 2007-12-31. 
  16. ^ "Hoover Senior Fellow Seymour Martin Lipset Dies". Business Wire. 2007-01-03. 
  17. ^ Dillman, Don A.. "Helen Dinerman and the Connecting of Science with Practice1" (PDF). Newsletter (World Association for Public Opinion Research) (Second Quarter 2006): 7–10. http://www.crs.wsu.edu/facstaff/dillman/don-dinerman06-brief.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 
  18. ^ Salmon, Charles T., and Chi-Yung Moh (1994). "The Spiral of Silence: Linking Individual and Society Through Communication". in J. David Kennamer. Public Opinion, The Press, and Public Policy. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-275-95097-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=qTzsujjiQMsC&pg=PA146&dq=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&sig=WFmIHjzwcePdbBtuTtVWIHz_MBI. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  19. ^ Viswanath, K. (1996). "Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916– )". in Nancy Signorielli. Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-313-29164-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=Jds8Oc1Oqt0C&pg=PA303&dq=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&sig=CC2IUMzi3ll-er4ko_dPpYRMjJM. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  20. ^ "2004 Dinerman Award Winner: Dr. Sidney Verba" (PDF). Newsletter (World Association for Public Opinion Research) (Second Quarter 2004): 4–5. http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/Newsletters/2nd%20Q%202004.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 
  21. ^ "Daniel Yankelovich". Who's Who at Public Agenda?. Public Agenda. http://www.publicagenda.org/aboutpa/aboutpa_whoswho_detail.cfm?list=1. Retrieved on 2007-11-02. 
  22. ^ Morin, Richard (1998-01-19). "Crackdown on Pollsters". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/wat/archive/wat011998.htm. Retrieved on 2007-11-03. 
  23. ^ "Dr. Herbert F. Weisberg". OSU:pro. The Ohio State University. https://pro.osu.edu/profiles/weisberg.1/. Retrieved on 2007-11-03. 
  24. ^ Weisberg, Herbert F. (2005). The Total Survey Error Approach: A Guide to the New Science of Survey Research. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-226-89127-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=lH2f9Ka60IQC&pg=PA11&dq=%22World+Association+for+Public+Opinion+Research%22&sig=kkAj9i5d1yFHAY8ZR_7164Yp87Q. Retrieved on 2007-11-03. 

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