LibGuides: Political Science: Public Opinionl Sources

Online Journal

Public Opinion Quarterly
This is a major journal in the field of public opinion, dating back to 1937. This journal can be access through many of our databases, but SocIndex provides the most comprehensive coverage, followed by JStor.

American National Election Studies
Statistics presented in tables and graphs showing public opinion, political participation, and elections results. Covers 1952 to the present.
Gallup Organgization
Gallup organization has measured and tracked the public's attitudes concerning political, social, and economic issues, including sensitive or controversial subjects.
Pew Research Center for Political and Social Research
nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research does not take policy positions.
Polling Report
An independent, nonpartisan resource
on trends in American public opinion
Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 600,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world. Taken from web site.