An experimental comparison of question forms used to reduce vote overreporting

Electoral Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 751-759

  Belli, Robert F ^a   Moore, Sean E ^b   VanHoewyk, John ^c  

^a Survey Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory aids; Questionnaire design; Retrospective reports; Split ballot experiment; Vote overreporting

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748638649     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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