WAPOR 69th Annual Conference
WAPOR’s 69th Annual Conference “Public Opinion in Transition,” was held May 10-12 at the Hotel […]
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Allan L. McCutcheon (1950-2016)
Allan L. McCutcheon, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Survey Research and Methodology at the University […]
Read moreUpcoming WAPOR Conferences
So many great things are happening in WAPOR! We have a number of interesting conferences […]
Read moreWAPOR 2016 Annual Conference Highlights
The 69th WAPOR annual conference is coming up fast. This year promises to be another […]
Read moreWAPOR Member Survey Due April 29th
All WAPOR members in 2015 and/or 2016 have been invited to take part in the […]
Read more7th WAPOR Latin American Conference
7th WAPOR Latin American Congress
“New Forms of Political Participation and Quality of Democracy in Latin […]
Syria Peace Polls
Colin Irwin, Politics, University of Liverpool
http://www.peacepolls.org
In the context of the on-going war in Syria I […]
Tom Smith Honored with Inaugural Norman Bradburn Career Achievement Award
Tom W. Smith is the first recipient of NORC at the University of Chicago’s newly […]
Read moreWAPOR 2015 Elections
The WAPOR elections for 2015 have ended and the official results were announced in mid-November. […]
Read moreFormer WAPOR President is Ambassador to U.S.
The first WAPOR event I ever attended was in Mexico City in 1990. Hosted at El Colegio de México, the conference brought international public opinion researchers to discuss opinion polls in a setting that featured an emerging polling profession in a rapidly changing country. The organizer, Miguel Basáñez, was one of the publicly recognized pollsters and, as such, he was a central part of the early education and controversy around survey methodologies and the public role of opinion polls in Mexico.
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