The United Nations Development Programme today released its latest national survey of Afghans’ attitudes about the national police force. We consulted on the questionnaire design, analyzed the data and wrote the report, with field work by our colleagues at the Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research in Kabul. The study received wide coverage.

Congratulations to Jon Krosnick of Stanford University on his election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Krosnick was selected for this honor on the basis of his “outstanding research in political psychology, leadership of the American National Election Studies, and innovative contributions to survey methodology, including assessment of alternative modes of survey administration.” See the announcements by Stanford here and AAAS here. Krosnick is a senior adviser to Langer Research Associates.

Click here to see Gary Langer’s presentation, “Probability Sampling, Convenience Sampling and the Future of Survey Research,” at the plenary session of the annual meeting of the Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research today in San Francisco.

Check here for the ABC News announcement of our sixth national public opinion poll in Afghanistan, released 12/6/10.

Other recent news pickup of our work (outside ABC News coverage):

-Sites picking up our December 2010 ABC News/Washington Post poll analyses on health care reform and the tax-and-benefits package include Daily Kos and Mother Jones.

-Pickup of our November 2010 airport security poll by Huffington Post and by The New York Times.

-The Washington Post’s p.1 story on its national canvass of Tea Party associations, with project management and consulting by Langer Research Associates, 10/24/10.

-The Atlantic picked up our blog post on young voters in the 2010 midterms, 10/18/10.

-Coverage by Yahoo! News of our ABC News/Yahoo! News polls in September, October and November 2010, including the American dream, political compromise and the pros and cons of gridlock in Washington.

-Our Afghanistan poll analysis is mentioned in Chapter 21 of Bob Woodward’s new book, released 9/27/10.

-Coverage of our analysis on ABCNews.com of the impact of unpopular wars on presidential approval, Los Angeles Times, 9/2/10

-Coverage of our evaluation of “belief” that Barack Obama is Muslim, in Politico, 8/30/10.

-Our startup announcement at ABCNews.com, and coverage by MRWeb and Research.