The Gallup Organization

(noun)

Gallup Inc. was founded in 1958, when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization. Today, Gallup, Inc. is primarily a research-based, performance-management consulting company.

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Examples of The Gallup Organization in the following topics:

  • The Gallup Organization

    • After Gallup's death in 1984, The Gallup Organization was sold to Selection Research, Incorporated (SRI) of Lincoln, Nebraska in 1988.
    • George Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, the precursor of The Gallup Organization, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1935.
    • In 1958 the modern Gallup Organization was formed from a merger of several polling organizations.
    • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
    • Locate the historical origins and significance of the Gallup Organization for public opinion research in the United States

  • Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

    • The first known example of an opinion poll was an 1824 local straw poll by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian for the Jackson Adams race.
    • At the same time, George Gallup conducted a far smaller, but more scientifically based survey, in which he polled a demographically representative sample.
    • Gallup correctly predicted Roosevelt's landslide victory.
    • Gallup launched a subsidiary in the United Kingdom, where it almost alone correctly predicted Labour's victory in the 1945 general election.
    • Identify the historical origins of public opinion research in the United States

  • The Importance of Accuracy

    • The importance of accuracy may be illustrated through the example of the Literary Digest Roosevelt-Landon presidential election poll.
    • At the same time, George Gallup conducted a far smaller, but more scientifically based survey, in which he polled a more demographically representative sample.
    • Gallup correctly predicted Roosevelt's landslide victory.
    • The Literary Digest lost its reputation for accuracy and the trust of the readers and soon went out of business.
    • The final rule, "let method be the servant, not the master," reminds researchers that methods are the means, not the end, of social research; it is critical from the outset to fit the research design to the research issue, rather than the other way around.

  • Political Ideology

    • The size of ideological groups varies slightly depending on the poll.
    • Gallup/USA Today polling in June 2010 revealed that 42% of those surveyed identify as conservative, 35% as moderate, while 20% identify as liberal .
    • Three groups were identified as part of "the left," "the middle," and "the right. " In this categorization system, "the right" roughly represents the Republican base, those on "the left" the Democratic base and those in "the middle" independents.
    • This chart, using Gallup Poll data, depicts trends in US political ideologies from 1992-2012.
    • Percent of self-identified liberals in the United States, broken down by state, according to Gallup, August 2010.

  • The Media

    • The U.S.
    • He maintained liaison between the embassy, MACV, and the press; publicized information to refute erroneous and misleading news stories; and sought to assist the Saigon correspondents in covering the side of the war most favorable to the policies of the U.S. government.
    • What began to change in 1967 was the conviction that the forces of good would inevitably prevail. " During late 1967 the MACV had also begun to disregard the decision it had made at the Honolulu Conference that the military should leave the justification of the war to elected officials in Washington.
    • The military found itself drawn progressively into politics, to the point that it had become as involved in "selling" the war to the American public as the political appointees it served.
    • They then compared to the same or similar questions posed with "the public" based on Gallup, and Pew Trust polls.

  • Twenty-First-Century Americans

    • Immigration has been a pivotal source for change in the social, economic and political makeup of the U.S.
    • Out of all immigrants to the United States, the highest amount originated in Mexico, India, the Philippines, and China.
    • Out of those who have immigrated to the U.S., the largest amount originated in Mexico, India, the Philippines, and China.
    • American immigration history can be viewed in four epochs: the colonial period, the mid-nineteenth century, the turn of the twentieth century, and post-1965.Each period denotes a time when particular national groups, races and ethnicities were migrating to the United States.
    • Public attitudes about immigration in the U.S. were heavily influenced in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.According to a 2009 Gallup poll, after the attacks, only 52% of Americans believed that immigration was a good thing overall for the U.S., down from 62% the year before.

  • The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions

    • Variation three, $O \rightarrow X+Y$ , refers to the act of organizing things in a certain way.
    • The act of organizing is thus a super wholesale approach to decision and action.
    • Organizations can be seen as collections of offices or roles, and roles in turn can be seen as sets of rules regarding proper and improper actions by the occupants of these roles.
    • Likewise, the decisions by Lenin and his associates regarding the pre-revolutionary organization of the Communist Party continued to have important consequences as the Soviet Union approached the end of the twentieth century, more than 70 years later.
    • While most such decisions are not as dramatic as the above examples, taken as a whole they are a very important part of the decisions and actions going on in the world.

  • Organization of Interest Groups

    • Public policy, in general, is a dynamic interplay of decisions between the President, Congress and interest groups.
    • Organizations may also have Special Interest Groups which are normally focused on a mutual interest or shared characteristic of a subset of members of the organization.
    • Pluralism: This is based upon the understanding that pressure groups operate in competition with one another and play a key role in the political system.
    • The members of this network co-operate during the policy making process.
    • Discuss the theories behind interest groups and their effects on government

  • Models of Bureaucracy

    • Bureaucracies have different type of models, depending upon their governmental organizational structure.
    • The fate of our time is characterized by rationalization, intellectualization and, above all, the "disenchantment of the world. "
    • New structures of society were marked by two intermeshing systems that had taken shape around the organizational cores of capitalist enterprise and bureaucratic state apparatus.
    • Bureaucratization for Weber was the key part of the rational-legal authority.
    • He saw it as the key process in the ongoing rationalization of Western society.

  • Informing the Public

    • The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC) provide an important link between the Democratic and Republican leaders and the general public.
    • The role of parties in informing the public can most clearly be seen in the relationship between the DNC and the Obama administration.
    • After his inauguration, Obama transferred his Obama for America organization to the DNC, which renamed it Organizing for America.
    • Under the leadership of the DNC, Organizing for America controls the BarackObama.com domain and website and works closely with the White House New Media Director.
    • Describe the role the national committees play on behalf of the major political parties