The Debate on Electoral Polls in Mexico in 2012

Mexico's federal elections in 2012, and in particular the presidential, resulted in an intense, but dispersed, debate over the role of polls in electoral processes and their regulation. Therefore retrieve the regulatory framework and the narrative of the published polls do not act only as a fun...

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Autor: de la Peña Mena, Ricardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/50880
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/article/view/50880
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Elecciones
encuestas
regulación
pronósticos
presidencial
debate.
Election
polls
regulation
forecasts
presidential
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Sumario:Mexico's federal elections in 2012, and in particular the presidential, resulted in an intense, but dispersed, debate over the role of polls in electoral processes and their regulation. Therefore retrieve the regulatory framework and the narrative of the published polls do not act only as a function of archeology in Foucault's sense, but it opens the possibility of a revision to the criticism expressed, in order to establish scope and limitations of these exercises. This essay will attempt to see if there is evidence of systematic biases, whether this phenomenon is unusual, if feasible avoid it simple and can be considered as the product of an intention of the researchers.