Who votes by mail? A dynamic model of the individual-level consequences of voting-by-mail systems

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 178-197

  Berinsky, Adam J ^a   Burns, Nancy ^b   Traugott, Michael W ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0035535195     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322196     Document Type: Article

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