The Measurement of Factual Knowledge in Surveys 1 (2009)
Patrick Sturgis, Nick Allum, Patten Smith, Anna Woods
It is increasingly apparent that factual knowledge is an important determinant of heterogeneity in public opinion in a broad range of areas (Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996; Miller 1998). Presidential...
Exploring social mobility with latent trajectory groups (2008)
Patrick Sturgis, Louise Sullivan
Summary. We present a new methodological approach to the study of social mobility. We use a latent class growth analysis (LCGA) framework to identify five qualitatively distinct social class...
Ann Berrington, Yongjian Hu, Patrick Sturgis
Summary. We use a graphical chain model to investigate the reciprocal relationships between changes in women’s labour force participation following entry into parenthood and changes in gender role...
Attitudes Over Time: The Psychology of Panel Conditioning (2008)
Patrick Sturgis, Nick Allum, Ian Brunton-smith
Panel studies are of crucial importance to our understanding of the complex, interacting, and dynamic nature of causal processes in the social world. A limitation to valid inference from panel...
Berrington, Ann, Hu, Yongjian, Smith, Peter W. F., Sturgis, Patrick
Summary. We use a graphical chain model to investigate the reciprocal relationships between changes in women's labour force participation following entry into parenthood and changes in gender role...
Exploring social mobility with latent trajectory groups (2008)
Sturgis, Patrick, Sullivan, Louise
We present a new methodological approach to the study of social mobility. We use a latent class growth analysis framework to identify five qualitatively distinct social class trajectory groups...
Science knowledge and attitudes across cultures: a meta-analysis (2008)
Allum, Nick, Sturgis, Patrick, Tabourazi, Dimitra, Brunton-Smith, Ian
The correlation between knowledge and attitudes has been the source of controversy in research on the public understanding of science (PUS). Although many studies, both quantitative and qualitative,...
An experiment on the measurement of political knowledge in surveys (2008)
Sturgis, Patrick, Allum, Nick, Smith, Patten
In a series of articles, Mondak and colleagues argue that the conventional way of measuring political knowledge in surveys is flawed. Personality related "propensity to guess" underestimates the...
An Experiment on the Measurement of Political Knowledge in Surveys (2008)
Sturgis, Patrick, Allum, Nick, Smith, Patten
In a series of articles, Mondak and colleagues argue that the conventional way of measuring political knowledge in surveys is flawed. Personality related “propensity to guess” underestimates the...
Nick Allum, Patrick Sturgis, Dimitra Tabourazi, Ian Brunton-smith
The correlation between knowledge and attitudes has been the source of controversy in research on the public understanding of science (PUS). Although many studies, both quantitative and qualitative,...
Attitudes to biotechnology: estimating the opinions of a better-informed public (2005)
Sturgis, Patrick, Cooper, Helen, Fife-Schaw, Chris
Public familiarity with basic scientific concepts and principles has been proposed as essential for effective democratic decision-making (Miller, 1998). Empirical research, however, finds that public...
A different take on the deliberative poll: information, deliberation and attitude constraint (2005)
Sturgis, Patrick, Roberts, Caroline, Allum, Nick
Opinion pollsters, political scientists, and democratic theorists have long been concerned with the normative and methodological implications of nonattitudes (Converse 1964). Of the proposed remedies...
A Different Take on the Deliberative Poll: Information, Deliberation, and Attitude Constraint (2005)
Sturgis, Patrick, Roberts, Caroline, Allum, Nick
Opinion pollsters, political scientists, and democratic theorists have long been concerned with the normative and methodological implications of nonattitudes (Converse 1964). Of the proposed remedies...
Analysing Complex Survey Data: Clustering, Stratification and Weights (2004)
The vast majority of surveys analysed by the UK social research community employ complex sample designs and weighting adjustments, yet are often treated as un-weighted simple random samples by...
Political sophistication and issue voting: an intra-individual level analysis (2004)
Sturgis, Patrick, Tilley, James
Much attention in political science has been devoted to an explication of how voters make use of issues to guide political preferences. The extant literature suggests that, while sophisticated voters...
Political information and motivation: A case of reciprocal causality? (2004)
Tilley, James R., Sturgis, Patrick, Allum, Nick
Political knowledge has been shown to influence a host of substantively important outcomes, such as participation, issue preference and vote choice. The causes of individual heterogeneity in...
Science in Society: Re-evaluating the Deficit Model of Public Attitudes (2004)
The 'deficit model' of public attitudes towards science has led to controversy over the role of scientific knowledge in explaining lay people's attitudes towards science. The most sustained critique...
Causes and Consequences of Core Political Value Change (2003)
The notion of core political values has long been of central importance in understanding how citizens evaluate policies, parties and candidates. However, the characterisation of these higher order...
Attitudes and Measurement Error Revisited: A Reply to Johnston and Pattie (2002)
In a recent Note in this Journal, Johnston and Pattie (2000) contend that they have discovered an ecological fallacy in the behaviour of the six-item scale developed by Heath et al. to measure the...
Ann Berrington, Yongjian Hu, Patrick Sturgis
We use a graphical chain model to investigate the reciprocal relationships between changes in women's labour force participation following entry into parenthood and changes in gender role attitude....
Exploring social mobility with latent trajectory groups
Patrick Sturgis, Louise Sullivan
We present a new methodological approach to the study of social mobility. We use a latent class growth analysis framework to identify five qualitatively distinct social class trajectory groups...
Networking and Accumulation of Social Capital
Peter Urwin, Giorgio Di Pietro, Patrick Sturgis, Gregor Jack
This article presents analyses of individual investment in social capital using both the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the UK Time Use Survey (2000) (UKTUS). We suggest a general...