Using National Surveys to Measure Dynamic U.S. State Public Opinion: A Guideline for Scholars and an Application

State Politics and Policy Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 415-439

  Pacheco, Julianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic state opinion; measuring state opinion; multilevel regression and poststratification; state ideology; state partisanship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857170708     PISSN: 15324400     EISSN: 19461607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532440011419287     Document Type: Article

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