Presidential AddressLegitimacy, Wicked Problems, and Public Opinion Research.

The article presents the author's presidential address speech which was delivered at the 73rd Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in Denver, Colorado on May 17, 2018, and it mentions changes involving public opinion research over the years. The deligitimation of survey research is addressed, along with declining response rates for surveys and the claim that many Americans do not trust public opinion researchers.