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> The word "essential" suggests that a methodology was used to determine the > list, but the method is not shown. The list could be expanded to a full > bibliography, sorted by topic. > > The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) published > "Fifty Books That Significantly Shaped Public Opinion Research, 1946-1995." > > http://www.aapor.org/default.asp?page=survey_methods/recommended_reading > > Here is the method they used to narrow to the most significant 50: > > --Established a 7 member panel that was approved by AAPOR Council (this > group of 7 included 3 long-term past editors and the current editor of > Public Opinion Quarterly, 6 past AAPOR presidents, 3 AAPOR Award winners, > and editor of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences). All 7 > judges had held elective office on AAPOR's Council. > > --Three stage selection process: > > (1) Clarified the terms of reference. > > (2) Committee members nominated up to 75 eligible books; lists were > consolidated. No judge nominated his/her own works. 152 books were > nominated in total, with the number of nominations received. > > (3) Each judge voted for 50 books; 4 votes was required for any work to be > included (16 books were unanimously selected). > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mark David Richards > > -- Matthew Gilmore H-DC list co-editor, web editor dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~dclist/ [list website] http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=H-DC [subscribe to H-DC] Remember to check http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lm&list=h-dc for past list messages.
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