William D. Blake - How Academic-Based Survey Research Organizations

Journal article

Mileah Kromer, William Blake
State and Local Government Review, vol. 56(3), 2024, pp. 277-88

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Kromer, M., & Blake, W. (2024). How Academic-Based Survey Research Organizations Inform and Influence the Development of Subnational Public Policy. State and Local Government Review, 56(3), 277–288. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X241271158

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Kromer, Mileah, and William Blake. “How Academic-Based Survey Research Organizations Inform and Influence the Development of Subnational Public Policy.” State and Local Government Review 56, no. 3 (2024): 277–88.

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Kromer, Mileah, and William Blake. “How Academic-Based Survey Research Organizations Inform and Influence the Development of Subnational Public Policy.” State and Local Government Review, vol. 56, no. 3, 2024, pp. 277–88, doi:10.1177/0160323X241271158.

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@article{kromer2024a,
  title = {How Academic-Based Survey Research Organizations Inform and Influence the Development of Subnational Public Policy},
  year = {2024},
  issue = {3},
  journal = {State and Local Government Review},
  pages = {277-88},
  volume = {56},
  doi = {10.1177/0160323X241271158},
  author = {Kromer, Mileah and Blake, William}
}

This field note describes how the public polling produced by academic-based survey research organizations provides state and local policymakers with information regarding public preferences. As an illustrative case study, the paper documents how the Goucher College Poll informed a variety of COVID-19 policies across the state of Maryland. Although the American Political Science Association was founded with an eye towards applied research, academic-based survey research organizations are one of the few institutions in the discipline that continue to carry out this mission in earnest.