Welcome to the
Cooperative Congressional Election Study, or CCES. Researchers
at thirty universities have pooled their resources to create
a very large sample national survey. Each research team has purchased
a 1,000 person national sample survey, to be conducted in October
and November of 2006 by Polimetrix.
Each survey has approximately 120 questions. For each survey
of 1,000 persons, half of the questionnaire is developed and
controlled by each the individual research team, and half of
the questionnaire is devoted to Common
Content. Each button below
links to the individual research teams and is identified by the
names of the universities involved.
Common Content amounts to a 30,000 person survey that allows
the group to measure the distribution of political attitudes
and preferences within states and congressional districts. The
core intellectual goal of the survey is to study representation
and electoral competition and to demonstrate the workability
of a large coordinated survey. In addition, groups of individual
teams have pooled subsets of their teams’ own content to
create Group Content, such as on religion and politics
or on state public finances.
If you would like to register a team and join the
project, if you are a visitor, or have comments for us please
Register. To find out more about
the study design, including the Sampling Design, Common Content,
and Group Content, please click on Study
Design. To find out
who is involved please go to People. If you have any additional questions, Ask Us!
CCES is coordinated through the MIT Political Science Department
and Polimetrix by Stephen Ansolabehere, Doug Rivers, and Sam Luks. Common Content was developed by Stephen Ansolabehere,
Robert Erikson, Elisabeth Gerber, Donald Kinder, Wendy Rahn,
Jeremy Pope, and John Sides. We thank John Lovett at MIT
for his assistance and support.
March 17th, 2009: CCES is mentioned in a Washington Post Editorial on registration and voting systems.
March 11th, 2009: Professor Stephen Ansolabehere testified in front of the Senate Rules Committee this morning about election administration, using data from the 2008 CCES. (Also reported on by the New York Times)
February 6th, 2009: The 2008 CCES Guide is now available!
September 26th, 2008: CCES is mentioned in a Pollster.com article about Polling & Cell Phone Only Households.
September 15th, 2008: Read Professor Stephen Ansolabehere's and Eitan Hersh's paper, "Vote Validation in the 2006 CCES."
July 21st, 2008: The CCES is mentioned in an Opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times about political bloggers.
May 21st, 2008: Professor Stephen Ansolabehere's article (with Nathaniel Persily), "Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements" has been published in the Harvard Law Review.
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