Polarization and Issue Consistency Over Time

Political Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-246

  Garner, Andrew ^a   Palmer, Harvey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude consistency; Heteroskedastic regression; Partisan Sorting; Polarization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956285955     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9136-7     Document Type: Article

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