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Crespi, Irving was born on May 8, 1926 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Esther (Crespi) Crespi.
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Since 1948, when pollsters unanimously forecast a Dewey victory over Truman, media-sponsored polls have proliferated, accompanied by a growing unease about their accuracy. Pre-Election Polling probes the results of over 430 recent polls and taps the professional “lore” of experienced pollsters to offer a major new assessment of polling practices in the 1980s. In a study of unusual scope and depth, Crespi examines the accuracy of polls conducted before a range of elections, from presidential to local. He incorporates the previously unpublished observations and reflections of pollsters representing national organizations (including Gallup, Roper, and the CBS/New York Times Poll) as well as pollsters from state, academic, and private organizations. Crespi finds potential sources of polling error in such areas as sampling, question wording, anticipating turnout, and accounting for last-minute changes in preference. To these methodological correlates of accuracy he adds important political considerations—is it a primary or general election; what office is being contested; how well known are the candidates; how crystallized are voter attitudes? Polls have become a vital feature of our political process; by exploring their strengths and weaknesses, Pre-Election Polling enhances our ability to predict and understand the complexities of voting behavior. "Combines intelligent empirical analysis with an informed insider's interpretation of the dynamics of the survey research process....Should be studied not only by all practitioners and students of opinion research but by anyone who makes use of polls." —Leo Bogart, Newspaper Advertising Bureau, Inc.
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(What is public opinion? How can we best study it? Thi...)
What is public opinion? How can we best study it? This work presents a "process model" that answers these questions by defining public opinion in a way that also identifies an approach to studying it. The model serves as a framework into which the findings of empirical research are integrated, producing a comprehensive understanding of public opinion that encompasses the congeries of middle-range theories that have emerged from empirical research. The three-dimensional process model--and the way it is explicated--satisfies the diverse and sometimes divergent needs and interests of political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and communication specialists who study public opinion. This is achieved by clearly differentiating and interrelating the following: * individual opinions--the judgmental outcomes of a process in which attitudinal systems--comprised of beliefs, values/interests, and feelings--function as intervening variables that direct and structure perceptions of public issues; * collective opinions--the outcomes of communication from which mutual awareness emerges and that integrate separate individual opinions into a significant social force; and * political roles of collective and individual opinions--the outcomes of the extent to which collective and individual opinions have achieved legitimacy as the basis for governing a people. DON'T USE THIS PARAGRAPH FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... Each dimension of the model has its corresponding subprocess: transactions between individuals and their environments, communications among individuals and collectives, and political legitimation of public opinion. Since the process model is -- by definition -- interactional, none of the three dimensions has theoretical or sequential priority over the others. Instead of treating the psychological, political, and sociological aspects of public opinion as separate stages of an unidirectional process, the three aspects are modeled as dimensions of a complex, ongoing system in continuous interaction with each other. This conceptualization satisfies the need for a truly interdisciplinary theory in that it demands that each dimension be studied in terms of its defining sub-process. It also avoids the twin errors of reductionism and reification in the study of public opinion.
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Crespi, Irving was born on May 8, 1926 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Esther (Crespi) Crespi.
Bachelor of Specialized Studies, City College of New York, 1945. Master of Arts, State University Iowa, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, 1955.
Instructor sociology, Triple Cities College, Endicott, New York, 1948-1950; instructor sociology, Harpur College, State University of New York, 1950-1951, 53-55; assistant professor sociology, Harpur College, State University of New York, 1955-1956; vice president, Gallup Organisation, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1958-1970; executive vice president, Gallup Organisation, Inc., 1970-1976; vice president, Mathematica Policy Research, 1976-1977; senior vice president, Mathematica Policy Research, 1977-1978; senior fellow, Mathematica Policy Research, 1978-1979; vice president, Roper Organisation, 1979-1981; owner, Irving Crespi & Associates, Princeton, 1981-1989; professor marketing, Baruch College-CUNY, 1986-1988; director media public affairs research, Total Research Corporation, 1989-1991; v.p quality, Total Research Corporation, 1991-1994; part-time market research consultant, Princeton, since 1994.
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Trustee Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fund, 1977-1979. Served with United States Air Force, 1951-1953. Member American Association Public Opinion Research (vice president 1975-1976, president 1976-1977, chairman standards committee 1966-1968, conference chairman 1970, Annual award 1997), American Sociological Association, American Marketing Association (director) 1970-1972), World Association for Public Opinion Research (vice president 1974-1976, president 1976-1978), Market Research Council, American Assm. for Public Opinion Research (Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement award).
Married Joan Striefling, August 4, 1968. Children: Robert Joseph, Judith Shoshana.