The 2000 election and the new Elections Act poll reporting provisions: Contra Professor Durand, the law has merit

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-372

  de Clercy, Cristine ^a   Ferguson, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

CANADA;

EID: 0344036109     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3552292     Document Type: Article

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2. de Clercy, C. and P. Ferguson. 2001. "Pollsters and Hucksters: A Comparative Analysis of Opinion Poll Reporting in the 2000 Canadian and American Elections." Paper presented to the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 30 August to 2 September.
3. Durand, C. 2002. "The 2000 Canadian Election and Poll Reporting under the New Elections Act," Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques 28 (4):539-45.
4. Lachappelle, G. 1991. Polls and the Media in Canadian Elections: Taking the Pulse, Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, Vol. 16. Toronto: Dundurn Press.