Fooling some of the public some of the time? A test for weak rationality with heterogeneous information levels

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-151

  Krause, George A ^a   Granato, Jim ^a  

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EID: 0032369111     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/297837     Document Type: Article

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