Open-Ended Political Response Coding
Open-ended political response coding is the systematic content analysis of verbatim survey answers, classically the American National Election Studies likes/dislikes about parties and candidates, into a categorical scheme so they can be analyzed quantitatively. It applies content-analysis methodology (Krippendorff, 2004) to capture the substance and sophistication of citizens' political thinking that closed-ended items cannot.
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- Krippendorff, K. (2004). Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780761915454
- Rosenberg, S. W., & Wolfsfeld, G. (1977). International conflict and the problem of attribution. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 21(1), 75-103. DOI: 10.1177/002200277702100104 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Content Coding of Open-Ended Political Survey Responses. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/political-psychology/open-ended-political-coding
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