The United Nations Development Programme has published an extensive report by Langer Research Associates on public attitudes toward the police in Afghanistan. The Police Perception Survey, commissioned by the UNDP Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan, provides a detailed examination of public impressions of the Afghan National Police across a range of measures, include statistical modeling of the predictors of support for the police force and confidence in its abilities. Field work was carried out by the Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research in Kabul, a subsidiary of D3 Systems in Vienna, Va. Langer Research Associates conducted an in-depth literature review on attitudes toward policing, consulted on the questionnaire design, analyzed the data and wrote the report. See it here.

Coverage of our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll (beyond ABC and the Post) has included a pair of pieces by the estimable Ron Brownstein at the National Journal, here and here, as well as pickup at Politico, The Atlantic and RealClearPolitics, among others.

Hear our analysis of the president’s State of the Union address on The Wall Street Journal’s political webcast, and see our summary of public opinion heading into the event for ABCNews.com here. Gary Langer also discussed the SOTU on Public Radio International’s “To the Point” with Warren Olney; he appeared on “To the Point” earlier in the month to discuss the Iowa caucuses and the state of the presidential election, here. Our polling for ABC News this month has been picked up by other news organizations including PBS, The Atlantic and USA Today, here and here.

Our polling this month for ABC News has been picked up by other media outlets including The New York Times (here and here), the Los Angeles Times, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, United Press International, Time magazine, the International Business Times and theSeattle Post-Intelligencer.

We’ve seen pickup of our November polling for ABC News by news organizations including The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The Hill and RealClearPolitics.

See Gary Langer’s discussion of the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on the 2012 election on ABC’s “Topline” with Amy Walter and Rick Klein. Pickup of the poll beyond ABC and the Post included pieces by RealClearPolitics, Investors.com, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, theHouston Chronicle and many others, as far afield as the Times of India.

Gary Langer was a guest today on Warren Olney’s “To the Point” program on Public Radio International, participating in a segment titled “Has Obama Taken a Combative New Turn?” Fellow guests included Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times, author Ron Suskind, Byron York of the Washington Examiner and Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll was widely covered this week. Beyond ABC and the Post, results of the survey were reported by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The Atlantic, The Hill and many others.

Research Analyst Gregory Holyk has been published in a pair of peer-reviewed academic journals this summer, contributing the article “Paper Tiger: Chinese Soft Power in East Asia” to the summer 2011 issue of Political Science Quarterly, and “Individual-Level Predictors of Leader and Public Support for the Use of Force” to the summer 2011 issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. Holyk also contributed a chapter on “Asian Perceptions of American Soft Power,” co-authored with Marshall Bouton, to an edited volume entitled “Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia,” and a chapter to the “Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and Media,” co-authored with Doris Graber, on “The News Industry.” The edited volumes were published in March and June, respectively.

We’re quoted this week by Media Matters on misguided criticism of a recent CBS News poll, and by Markos Moulitsas in a misguided paean to robo-polls.