The contamination of responses to survey items: Economic perceptions and political judgments

Political Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 181-213

  Wilcox, Nathaniel ^a   Wlezien, Christopher ^a  

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EID: 0010679188     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/5.1.181     Document Type: Article

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