Modeling direction and intensity in semantically balanced ordinal scales: An assessment of congressional incumbent approval

American Journal of Political Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 174-185

  Jones, Bradford S ^a   Sobel, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b 413 Fayerweather Hall ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0034341306     PISSN: 00925853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2669302     Document Type: Article

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