Informing the psychological explanations of political behavior through large-scale, multi-wave, nationally representative survey research across three US election cycles.
The Psychology of Political Behavior Studies (PPBS) are an ongoing series of quota-based national cross-sections containing a set of repeating core questions on social and political attitudes, values, voting and candidate preferences, and political participation.
PPBS leverages 12 datasets, collected through professional survey companies, for a combined N of 21,056 interviews. It includes four national quota cross-sections of the U.S. adult population (N=7,259) during the 2016, 2018, and 2020 election cycles, their replication or confirmatory analogues (N=11,582), and repeated-measures recontacts (N=2,215) across multiple time points, allowing for both within- and between-person research designs.