How politicians evaluate public opinion

This project is a part of the POLEVPOP project, conducting interviews with politicians in Australia. POLEVPOP is an international comparative research project amongst elected representatives. It is funded by an Advanced ERC grant attributed to Stefaan Walgrave at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). The goal of POLEVPOP is to study how individual politicians evaluate public opinion. The main questions are which criteria politicians use to evaluate public opinion, what it is in the content, medium and format of public opinion signals that make that they are evaluated positively or negatively by politicians, and what effect politicians evaluation of public opinion has on their policy actions. To study this, POLEVPOP relies on surveys/interviews with elected politicians in nine regions/countries. The current tender only regards these surveys/interviews with elected politicians.