The American National Election Studies (ANES) are academically-run national surveys of voters in the United States, conducted before and after every presidential election. Though the ANES was formally established by a National Science Foundation grant in 1977, the data are a continuation of studies going back to 1948.[1] The study has been based at the University of Michigan since its origin and, since 2005, has been run in partnership with Stanford University. Its principal investigators for the first four years of the partnership were Arthur Lupia and Jon Krosnick. As of 2017, the principal investigators are Ted Brader and Vincent Hutchings of the University of Michigan and Shanto Iyengar of Stanford University.[2]

The studies ask the same questions repeatedly over time and are frequently cited in works of political science. Early ANES data were the basis for The American Voter (1960). Now ANES data are used by scholars, students, and journalists. ANES survey results have allowed for the detection of partisan bias in survey responses, showing that the respondent's political affiliation contributes to their responses. This even extends to questions with objective, known answers, like whether or not Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.[3]

In 2006, ANES opened the ANES Online Commons to allow interested scholars and survey professionals to propose questions for future ANES surveys. In 2022, ANES was awarded a $14 million grant to study the 2024 United States elections.[4][5] University of Michigan professor Nicholas Valentino, Stanford University's Shanto Iyengar, Duke University's D. Sunshine Hillygus, and the University of Texas' Daron Shaw will act as principal investigators.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Nietzel, Michael T. "National Science Foundation Awards $14 Million Grant For The Study Of National 2024 Election". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  2. ↑ "ANES Principal Investigators". www.electionstudies.org. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  3. ↑ Bullock, John G.; Lenz, Gabriel (2019-05-11). "Partisan Bias in Surveys". Annual Review of Political Science. 22 (1): 325–342. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-051117-050904. ISSN 1094-2939.
  4. ↑ Nietzel, Michael T. "National Science Foundation Awards $14 Million Grant For The Study Of National 2024 Election". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  5. ↑ "The American National Election Studies (ANES) awarded $14 million to study 2024 elections | Institute for Social Research". isr.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  6. ↑ "Shanto Iyengar and team win major NSF grant to study 2024 election | Institute for Research in the Social Sciences". iriss.stanford.edu. 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  7. ↑ Nietzel, Michael T. "National Science Foundation Awards $14 Million Grant For The Study Of National 2024 Election". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  8. ↑ "Federal Funding in Action: Sunshine Hillygus and National Voting Studies". Duke Today. 2022-11-03. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
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