Abstract #302341

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JSM 2003 Abstract #302341
Activity Number: 266
Type: Luncheons
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #302341
Title: Vote Over-Reporting and Errors in Behavioral Self-Reports
Author(s): Allan L. McCutcheon*+
Companies: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Address: 200 N 11th St., Lincoln, NE, 68508-1406,
Keywords: self-reports ; vote over-reporting
Abstract:

The dynamics of over- and underreporting in self-reports of voting behavior, and other forms of behavioral self-reports, have been the focus of a number of criterion validation studies conducted by electoral scientists and survey methodologists. Many of these studies examine the hypothesis that misreporting results primarily from social desirability; that, for example, nonvoting respondents who feel most compelled to vote are those most inclined to misreport their actual (non)voting activity. Others focus on the competing hypothesis that a substantial proportion of over-/underreporting results from false memories; for example, respondents who vote only intermittently are prone to misremember their actual voting behavior from the most recent election, and are thus likely to overreport their voting. This study compares the two hypotheses regarding the sources of vote overreporting--the social desirability and faulty memory hypotheses--in two electorates.

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