After completing my interview questions, I went about trying to formulate survey questions. Survey questions seem considerably harder because there is another dimension to consider: the response and how to quantify it. So I ended up kind of distilling my original interview questions into a small set of easily quantifiable survey items and am quite happy with the result. As far as research goes, I'm still very much in the text-based research stage, which basically means I've been combing through lots and lots of academic journal articles covering a broad range of topics which are of interest to my project. Lately I've noticed that there are lots of great political science resources on google, and I've been trying to use them to spark new ideas and to give me a new and fresh way of looking at my project and its ultimate goals or ambitions.
Here is my survey.
