Dear NotOneDamnDime website visitor,

This survey seeks to learn from visitors of the NotOneDamnDime website whether you participated in the January 20, 2005 Inauguration Day protest, and the reasons for your decision. Your responses are intended to help grassroots activists and causes better understand their audience and how to be more effective in achieving their political goals.

Participation in this study is completely voluntary. Your decision will not affect your current or future relations with Bentley College or NotOneDamnDime. You also may choose to withdraw at any time without affecting those relationships.

There are no identifiable risks associated with this study and no identifying information on any individuals will be collected. Published reports will not include any information that will make it possible to identify an individual. Research records will be stored securely and only researchers will have access to those records. By completing and submitting this survey, you are providing us with your consent to use this information in our research.

This research is being conducted under the auspices of Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts. The researchers conducting this study are Christine Williams, Professor of Government (cwilliams@bentley.edu), Bruce Weinberg, Associate Professor of Marketing (bweinberg@bentley.edu) and Jesse Gordon (jesse@NotOneDamnDime.com). If you have any questions, you are encouraged to contact anyone of us. If you would like to talk to someone other than the researcher(s), you are encouraged to contact Mary Louise Pauli, Bentley’s IRB Administrator, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02452 (mpauli@bentley.edu).
We will post the results at
 http://www.NotOneDamnDime.com as soon as they are available.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ASSISTANCE!
ID. Record a respondent identification (ID) number using the digits in the street address of your residence.
Participation. Did you observe the NotOneDamnDime protest on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2005?


NormalSpending. Estimate how much you typically would spend on a day such as January 20, 2005
ActualSpending. Estimate how much you actually spent on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2005

Location. Record the city and state where you were living January 20, 2005.
1. How did you find out about NotOneDamnDime? (check all that apply)











2. From whom did you find out about NotOneDamnDime? (check all that apply)









3. How many different times did you hear about NotOneDamnDime?
4. To how many others did you pass along information about NotOneDamnDime? (enter 0 if you did not mention it to anyone else).
5. Through what means did you pass along information about NotOneDamnDime?







6. How many people do you personally know of who participated in the NotOneDamnDime protest?
7. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following:
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
I view NotOne DamnDime (NODD) as useful
I will say positive things about NODD
NODD offered me a way to feel like I am part
of the political process
8. Would you participate in another NotOneDamnDime protest in the future?





9. How would you describe your political issue involvement or activism?




10. Why did you visit the NotOneDamnDime website?
11. How has your level of opposition to the Bush Administration and/or its policies changed as a result of this NODD website visit and protest initiative?






12. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following:
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
I will encourage others to learn more about the NODD protest agenda
I will encourage others to act to advance this protest agenda
I will encourage others to express their views in support of this protest agenda
I will act to advance this protest agenda
I will contribute money to this protest agenda
I will speak out publically and privately on this protest agenda
13. What did you like about the NotOneDamnDime protest? Any dislikes?
14. How much value do you think NODD protests have for the following kinds of political actors and policies and purposes?
High value Medium value Low value
Administration
Congress
state elected officials, policies
local officials, policies
political issue advocacy tool
interest group activity or tactic
grass roots mobilization
15. What do you see as the chief positive aspects of using NODD style economic boycotts as a vehicle for expressing and influencing political actors and policies?
16. What do you see as the chief negative aspects of using NODD style economic boycotts as a vehicle for expressing and influencing political actors and policies?

17. What policy issues prompted your participation in NODD?


18. How do you rate the value of NotOneDamnDime in facilitating the following kinds of political action?

 

 

 

High value Medium value Low value
mobilizing those who are a-political or uninvolved into political activity
empowering me to get involved politically on my own
motivating me to participate in specific planned activities outlined in the NODD
e-mail or website
organizing and coordinating people to participate in group actions


19. Have you ever donated money to a political candidate's election campaign?





20. About how much money have you contributed to a political candidate's campaign in the 2004 election cycle?









21. Have you ever donated money to a political group or issue campaign?





22. About how much money have you contributed to a political group or issue campaign in the 2004 election cycle?









23. How often do you vote in national, state, and local elections, and for primaries, general elections, and ballot questions:





24. Have you ever done volunteer work for a political issue, group, or candidate's campaign?



25. Have you ever attended a Meetup for a political topic? (check all that apply)






26. Estimate how many Meetups (for all political topics) you have attended?
27. On average, how often do you use the Internet?







28. Have you visited a political candidate's web site, e-discussion group, or weblog this election cycle?




29. Have you visited a political party's web site, e-discussion group, or weblog this election cycle?




30. Have you ever visited a political activism web site (not a political candidate, news media or government site)?




31. Thinking about your political party identification, do you consider yourself to be a








32. How would you characterize your political ideology? (check the one that comes closest to describing your position)









33. In what year were you born?
34. What is your gender?


35. If employed, what is your occupational category?








36. What is your present marital status?





37. What is your total household income before taxes?







38. What is your racial or ethnic heritage?







39. If you would like to receive further information about this study, please provide your e-mail address. Only the Bentley College researchers will see this adress; they will not give it to anyone else for any other purpose:

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