Ken Winneg

About Ken Winneg

Ken Winneg is the Managing Director of Survey Research at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania (APPC). He is responsible for all facets of the surveys emanating from the Annenberg Public Policy Center including the Annenberg Institutions of Democracy survey and the Annenberg Science Knowledge survey (ASK). In addition to his survey research duties, Winneg teaches a course to Penn undergraduates on new media and politics.Prior to joining the Policy Center, Winneg was vice president at Penn, Schoen and Berland in New York, where he consulted with a variety of clients on corporate and political strategy. Winneg also was a senior executive at Chilton Research Services, where he managed the ABC News-Washington Post surveys, exit polling for ABC News (19••••89) and exit polling data collection operations for the consortium of news organizations called Voter Research and Surveys (19••••92). Winneg continues his association with ABC News as an election day analyst.Winneg earned his MA and Ph.D. at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in political science from The George Washington University. His research focuses on political communication, emphasizing online activity and political participation. He is co-author of two books, several book chapters, and is published in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Political Communication, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS),Presidential Studies Quarterly, Mass Communication & Society, Social Science Quarterly, Climatic Change, Vaccine, Risk Analysis, and American Behavioral Scientist. Specialties: Survey MethodologySurvey DesignMultivariate Statistical AnalysisMarket Research ManagementStrategic AnalysisOnline Political Communication

Experience

1. House Decision Desk Consultant

   Abc News

   Jan 2006 — Present

   I\'m part of the House Team calling races for the U.S. House of Representatives for the network

Education

• The George Washington University

  BA, Political Science

  1978 — 1982

• University of Oxford

  Summer Doctoral Programme: Oxford Internet Institute

  2006 — 2006

• University of Pennsylvania

  PhD, Political Communication

  2005 — 2009

• University of Pennsylvania

  MA, Communication

  1983 — 1985

Skills

• Survey Design
• Market Research
• Analysis
• Multivariate Statistics
• Survey Methodology
• Quantitative Research
• Qualitative Research
• Survey Research
• Focus Groups
• Spss
• Political Communication
• Public Policy
• Politics
• Research
• Research Design
• Stata
• Marketing Research
• Customer Insight
• Data Analysis
• New Media
• Report Writing
• Policy
• Policy Analysis
• Political Science
• Online Research
• Data Collection
• Statistics
• Advertising Research
• Analytics
• Community Outreach
• Competitive Intelligence
• Consumer Behaviour
• Editing
• Ethnography
• Foreign Policy
• Grant Writing
• Higher Education
• International Relations
• Journalism
• Media Relations