Boston Area Colleges Election Project

From abstract: "This article examines the importance of public involvement in the management of elections, especially as it pertains to serving the needs of voters for whom English is not their first

Having an African American interviewer made it more likely that respondents would indicate that they support affirmative action.

Rebuts criticisms of ecological regression, particularly those criticisms that say ecological regression has no credence

Preelection polls for the 1989 VA gov. election overestimated the vote share of the black candidate. This was due to social desirabilty and race-of-interviewer effects

Looks at the New Hamphsire polling gaffe and samples various pundits explanations, which include the Bradley effect, likelihood of voting estimates, greater possibilty of voters changing minds just be

Examines Boston's increase in immigrant population in recent years.

Race of interviewer has an impact on responses to racial questions when the respondent is white and the interviewer is black.

African American respondents performed more poorly in answering factual questions (rather than questions on opinion) when interviewed by a white interviewer than when interviewed by an African America

Black candidates David Dinkins and Douglas Wilder did better in the polls than in the actual returns in the 1989 elections, similar to Tom Bradley's experience in the California race for governor in 1

Examines Boston's immigrant population and takes a look at Boston demographics. Includes maps on foreign language residents and racial concentrations by community.