The U.S. decennial census: Politics and political science

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 13, Issue , 2010, Pages 237-254

  Prewitt, Kenneth ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Population policy; Statistical independence; Statistical races

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952896942     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.031108.095600     Document Type: Article

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