The principal researchers are:

Jack Vowles, j.vowles@exeter.ac.uk Susan Banducci, s.a.banducci@exeter.ac.uk Jeffrey Karp, j.karp@exeter.ac.uk University of Exeter

Raymond Miller, rk.miller@auckland.ac.nz Ann Sullivan, a.sullivan@auckland.ac.nz Jennifer Curtin, j.curtin@auckland.ac.nz University of Auckland

Plans for the 2008 Election Study

The 2008 Election Study is ready to go into the field, with a questionnaire ready, subject to only minor modifications in the lead-up to election day on November 8. It will include module 3 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) programme. The sample size will be equivalent to that of the last study in 2005, with Maori electorate and younger person over-samples.

Support predominantly comes from various sources within the University of Auckland and the Electoral Commission, with some further funding from the University of Houston, the New Zealand Treasury, and AUT University. Access to the data will be restricted to the collaborators and funders in the first instance, with a dataset anticipated ready for analysis in March 2009.