Andrew Kohut

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Andrew Kohut (2011)

Andrew Kohut (born September 2, 1942 in Newark , New Jersey ; died September 8, 2015 in Baltimore ) was an American pollster .

Life

Andrew Kohut grew up as a working class child in Rochelle Park . He received a Bachelor of Arts from Seton Hall University in 1964 and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Rutgers University in 1966 .

During his studies, Kohut started to work at the polling institute The Gallup Organization and came under the wing of statistician Paul K. Perry. His professional strengths were questionnaire development and the ability to put the survey results into a story. From 1979 to 1989 he headed the Gallup Institute. After Gallup was sold to Selection Research in 1988, he founded his own company, Princeton Survey Research Associates. In 1993 he became one of the founding directors of the polling institute Pew Research Center and until 2004 headed the "Pew Research Center for the People & the Press". From 2004 to 2012 he was President of the overall organization, which he established as the third largest think tank in Washington, DC and led it into the Internet age. Kohut was a popular commentator on radio and television poll results and wrote for national newspapers. He was co-editor of books on topics of political opinion research.

Kohut was intermittently president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the National Council on Public Polls (NCPP).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Bruce Stokes: America against the world: how we are different and why we are disliked . New York: Times Books, 2006
  • The diminishing divide: religion's changing role in American politics . Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000
  • with Max Kaase : Estranged friends? : the transatlantic consequences of societal change . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation, 1996

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jurek Martin: Pollster who pointed to the world's shifting sensibilies , in: Financial Times , September 19, 2015, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Kohut, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pollster
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2015
Place of death Baltimore