Pechter Middle East Polls
Pechter Middle East Polls, LLC (PMEP) conducts and analyzes political, economic and social surveys in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and select other countries.
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Pechter Polls conducts the first public opinion poll in the new nation of South Sudan
Posted on 18 January 2012.
Radio for a New Nation January/February 2012 Angela Stephens | DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS & GOVERNANCE USAID In the first public opinion poll conducted in South Sudan, supported by USAID, 61 percent of South Sudanese interviewed said that radio is their primary source of news and information. The next most common source was “word of mouth” [...]
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Pollster gauges Arab opinion
Posted on 08 November 2011.
By Madeline McMahon Staff Reporter Monday, November 7, 2011 Adam Pechter ’93, who owns a political polling company, told students Sunday afternoon about the importance of garnering honest responses in measuring shifting public opinion in the Middle East. Pechter spoke to about 15 students at a Master’s Tea in Silliman College Sunday afternoon about his [...]
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September 2011 Poll Shows 40 Percent of Jerusalem Arabs Prefer Israel to a Palestinian State
Posted on 08 November 2011.
PolicyWatch #1867 Poll Shows 40 Percent of Jerusalem Arabs Prefer Israel to a Palestinian State By David Pollock November 2, 2011 The nearly 300,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, regardless of diplomatic rhetoric, are almost evenly divided in choosing between Israeli and Palestinian citizenship. In the wake of Washington’s decision to cut funding to UNESCO, a [...]
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East Jerusalem Palestinians Say UN Move Would Hurt Them; Many Prefer Israeli Citizenship
Posted on 27 September 2011.
By David Pollock Policy Alert, September 22, 2011 The PA’s demand for a UN declaration that names east Jerusalem as the capital of a new Palestinian state actually goes against the wishes of much of the city’s Palestinian population. A new and credible poll of east Jerusalem Palestinians shows that nearly half would prefer to [...]
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The Real Issue Is Political Leadership
Posted on 02 June 2011.
The Real Issue Is Political Leadership By David Pollock BitterLemons-API.org, June 1, 2011 Around half of Israelis, Palestinians, and some other key Arab publics, according to various opinion polls taken in the past decade, support something like the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002, whose basic concept is peace and Arab recognition of Israel in exchange [...]
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Pollsters Struggle for Accurate Picture of Mideast by Carl Bialik – The Numbers Guy – Wall Street Journal – February 26, 2011
Posted on 26 February 2011.
At the height of this month’s protests in Egypt, pollsters phoned hundreds of Egyptians on their cellphones and landlines to ask them, among other things, who should be the next president of the country. Just 16% named Hosni Mubarak, who hadn’t yet stepped down. As much as the results, the poll itself was a reflection [...]
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