Public opinion in Mexico
Mexicans Want Calderón's Speech in Congress"The vast majority of people in Mexico want Felipe Calderón to read the presidential State of the Country address to Congress, according to a poll by Milenio. 73 per cent of respondents would not want to repeat a past experience, when a sitting head of state chose to deliver a written copy of his speech and opted not to read it himself...
"On Aug. 19, PRD Senate coordinator Carlos Navarrete announced that his party has agreed to block Calderón’s path to the stage of Congress to prevent him from delivering the presidential State of the Country address on Sept. 1. Navarrete declared: 'The PRD’s lawmakers will not accept the presence of he who doesn’t count with the legitimacy given by a democratic election in the podium of Congress.'..."
One of my reasons for posting this report on public opinion in Mexico is to remind you of the Angus Reid Global Monitor web site.
If you want to use recent poll results from a country you're teaching about, Angus Reid is about the best place to begin looking.
But you'll have to check it regularly. Current poll results will remain available to the public. But, after 4 years of publishing poll results and allowing anyone to access "over 16,100 polls," the archives are about to become subscription only.
A note on the site explains, "Beginning in September, our daily news feeds of political, social, and economic affairs will continue to be free and our access to archives will be on a subscription basis."
So, if you check regularly and harvest current data that you can use later in your course, you'll have access to it. Otherwise, you'll have get your library or department to subscribe.
There are other good sources for global public opinion. Afrobarometer comes to mind. But, from my limited perspective, Angus Reid is the most useful for comparativists (and it has links to good polling results about US politics as well).
If you have other sources to share with us here, please send them along. Use the comment link at the bottom of this entry.
Labels: Mexico, pedagogy, politics, public opinion
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:35 AM
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