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  • While longitudinal surveys provide substantial information about intra-individual change, they also present several methodological difficulties. Among these, the question […] whether repeated interviews are likely, in themselves, to influence a respondent’s opinions” (Lazarsfeld 1940: 128) still lacks thorough understanding. Findings from previous research more or less suffer from methodological as well as theoretical inadequateness and frequently are ambiguous in detail. For these reasons, it is essential to examine systematically the underlying mechanisms for the varying evidence of conditioning effects. In this respect, the German Longitudinal Election Study offers a unique database as it contains a seven-wave campaign panel with parallel cross-sectional samples. The two most salient difficulties associated with panel conditioning in longitudinal surveys are the separation of attrition effects as well as changes in the population from conditioning effects. Therefore, I employ a procedure which adjusts the panel waves by using the respective cross-section as a reference and thus ensures that treatment (panel respondents) and control group (cross-section respondents) have similar distributions of relevant characteristics. Under this directive the cross-sectional samples serve as a baseline to explore whether responses given by a person, who has already taken part in the panel study, differ from responses that would have been given without previous participation. I direct particular attention to the mechanisms of attitude formation and change underlying conditioning effects as one component of measurement error in panel surveys. The results show that repeated interviews have substantial consequences on the respondents’ attitude accessibility as well as on their voting intention. (xsd:string)
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  • 3. Fassung, März 2014 (xsd:gyear)
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  • Measuring real change or something else? Mechanisms and consequences of panel conditioning in a short-term campaign panel (xsd:string)
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