New research reveals significant gaps between self-reported opinions and actual voting behavior among Swiss parliament members.
🔍 Methodology Comparison
Researchers analyzed responses from a parliamentary survey against documented legislative actions.
📊 Key Bias Identified
Survey answers show substantial misreporting bias, indicating that attitudes strongly influence response accuracy.
🤔 Parliamentarian Self-Selection
The study demonstrates that respondents' willingness to answer questions correlates with their substantive reporting.
➡️ Policy Implications
These findings highlight the need for improved survey design among political elites worldwide.
| Self-selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys was authored by Pirmin Bundi, Frédéric Varone, Roy Gava and Thomas Widmer. It was published by Cambridge in PSR&M in 2018. |
