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The American National Election Studies invites scholars (faculty and graduate students alike) to evaluate new questions from the 2006 Pilot Study.  The purpose of the Pilot Study was to implement new ideas for measuring important concepts.  Now that these data are available, scholars may submit reports analyzing as many new questions as they like. Ideally, a Pilot Study report will speak to the stated goals of the original study and will contain one of two kinds of analyses:  (1) an examination of wording/order/format experiments, and/or (2) analyses of sets of items, for the purposes of assessing correlational validity. The ANES has already received reports from the original authors of the proposals that generated the questions. They may be viewed at:  http://www.electionstudies.org/resources/papers/pilotrpt.htm.


The ANES will accept Pilot Study reports from the public on a rolling basis beginning July 1, 2007.  Submissions will be reviewed and, if they meet the above criteria, posted on the ANES website.  Depending on the number and quality of the reports, the ANES will publish them in an edited volume with a leading university press.  The book is tentatively titled, “The ANES Book of Ideas,” and will help scholars better understand key properties of election study data.  For more information, visit  http://www.electionstudies.org or contact Matthew DeBell, the Director of Stanford Operations for the ANES (debell@stanford.edu).


In addition, the ANES Online Commons is now accepting proposals for the 2008 ANES Time Series study, and it will stop accepting new proposals at 3pm EST on January 15, 2008. For additional information about how to submit a proposal and the proposal evaluation process, please visit: http://www.electionstudies.org/onlinecommons.htm