How Academic-Based Survey Research Organizations Inform and Influence the Development of Subnational Public Policy

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2024-09-23

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Kromer, Mileah K., and William D. 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X241271158.

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This field note describes how public polling produced by academic-based survey research organizations provides state and local policymakers with information regarding public preferences. Utilizing a case study from Maryland, we describe how one such organization—the Goucher College Poll—informed the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic in realtime. Although the American Political Science Association was founded with an eye toward applied research, academic-based survey research organizations are among the few institutions in the discipline that continue to carry out this mission in earnest.