WorldPublicOpinion.org
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WorldPublicOpinion.org is an online publication and resource for public opinion about international policy issues. It releases new poll findings and gathers and synthesizes polling research from around the world. It covers issues such as globalization and trade, war and peace, human rights, climate change, views about nations and international institutions, and governance. Examples of its own polling include Afghan public opinion about the overthrow of the Taliban, parallel surveys of the Russian and American public, and a poll of Iraqis following the election of their new government in December 2005. WorldPublicOpinion.org is published by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), a non-profit research program affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park.
Some of PIPA/WPO’s best known studies include global polls conducted with GlobeScan for the BBC World Service, often covering 30-35 countries; a study linking viewership of Fox News to misperceptions of facts concerning the war in Iraq; analyses of the separate realities of Bush and Kerry voters in 2004; and studies showing that the American public vastly overestimates the amount the U.S. government spends on foreign aid.
WorldPublicOpinion.org draws upon a growing body of public interest polling in the U.S. and, increasingly, around the world, conducted by organizations such us the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., the Pew Research Center, the Eurobarometer, and the Levada Center in Russia.
