Social-political research
KIIS research solutionsMeasurement of political ratings. Is an assessment of competitive positions occupied by politicians and political entities (parties, groups etc.) it includes estimation of main parameters of the electoral base. Forecast of electoral results. Implies construction of likely voters’ electoral behavior models on the ground of Ukrainian and Eastern-European experience. The most interesting models are those predicting turnout and electoral preferences change. Study of image. Is the study of voters’ beliefs about qualities of ideal candidate along with searching for a group that is the most receptive to candidate’s image characteristics. Combination of representative survey and focus groups is employed for this purpose. Identification of electorally significant problems of region. Citizens’ beliefs about important problems demanding political solutions are simultaneously studied with citizens’ preferences of the ways for improving of these problems. Academic political research and research oriented on production of policies. KIIS makes full volume of works on production of sociological instruments according to wishes of research centers and human rights promotion organizations. KIIS enlists experts who possess knowledge of social mechanisms in different spheres of Ukrainian social life to the construction of sociological instruments. Analysis of news flow structure. Is an estimation of both share of attention paid by mass media to certain news causes and as well interest turned out by citizens for the same news causes. Combination of content-analysis and representative survey is typically employed for resolution of this type of research tasks. Analysis of events’ influence on voters’ opinions and orientations (event analysis). Is accomplished via registration of the most salient events and assessment of influence of these events on logics employed to form conceptions about certain political objects. In-depth analysis of opinions and orientations. is a research of logic employed by citizens to assess certain issues of political agenda. Analysis of political processes (based on expert surveys). Analysis of expert knowledge about the state of political game. The main method of analysis of change in received data is agent modeling (NetLogo). Monitoring of voters’ orientations change. Tracking and rolling surveys of voters’ attitudes towards certain political subjects and issues of political agenda. Monitoring of political brands. Monitoring of utterances about certain political brand broadcasted via mass media is accomplished by content analysis. Measurement of audience attitudes towards brand by representative survey is simultaneously accomplished with content analysis. Exit-poll. Exit-poll is an express survey conducted near the exit from voting stations at the Election Day. Development of region’s passport. Construction of database that contains results of electoral surveys along with basic demographic and economic indicators and also with the map of the most resonance events happened during the last 3 years. The database is synchronized with the current research process. |
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