ABSTRACT
From the wartime work in survey research, two major books and a number of articles were produced. In 1944, Cantril and his associates at OPOR published a volume of experiments on survey methods. Although their enterprise was not funded directly by the government but rather by a Rockefeller Foundation grant and other entirely private monies, these funds represented a government interest in their polling work in the context of urgency about American defense and wartime activities. Cantril was interested in both the policy and scientific aspects of polling.
