Subjective agreement with the presidential candidates of 1976 and 1980

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1982, Pages 393-403

  Brent, Edward E ^a   Granberg, Donald ^b  

^a U Missouri ^*  (Colombia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

use of J. Cohen's kappa, detection measure of subjective agreement assimilation of political candidate's attitudes, voters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001751595     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.42.3.393     Document Type: Article

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