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Political involvement and memory failure as interdependent determinants of vote overreporting

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  • Stocké, Volker
  • Stark, Tobias

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Survey respondents have been found to systematically overreport their participation in political elections. Although the sociodemographic correlates of this response bias are well known, only a few studies have analyzed the determinants predicted by two prominent theoretical explanations for vote overreporting: memory failure and social desirability bias. Both explanations have received empirical support in studies in which the probability of vote overreporting was found to increase (a) with the time between the election and the survey interview and (b) when respondents were more politically involved. In the present paper, we argue that the effect of each of these determinants is not simply additive, but depends on the value of the respective other factor. This interaction effect has been found with data from the American National Election Studies: The probability of vote overreporting increases significantly stronger with the respondents’ political involvement when more time has elapsed since the election day.

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  • Stocké, Volker & Stark, Tobias, 2006. "Political involvement and memory failure as interdependent determinants of vote overreporting," Papers 06-01, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
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    1. Stocké, Volker & Hunkler, Christian, 2006. "Measures of Desirability Beliefs and their Validity as Indicators for Socially Desirable Responding," Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications 06-03, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim;Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim.
    2. Stocké, Volker & Hunkler, Christian, 2006. "Measures of desirability beliefs and their validity as indicators for socially desirable responding," Papers 06-03, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.

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