Citizen Forecasts of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

Politics and Policy

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1019-1052

  Miller, Michael K ^a   Wang, Guanchun ^b   Kulkarni, Sanjeev R ^c   Poor, H Vincent ^c   Osherson, Daniel N ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Lightspeed China Ventures ^*  (China)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2008 U.S. Presidential Election; Citizen Forecasts; Individual Election Predictions; Partisan Bias; Voter Information; Voter Preference; Wishful Thinking Bias in Elections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870666988     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00394.x     Document Type: Article

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