The promise and peril of presidential polling: Between Gallup's dream and the Morris Nightmare

Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Government?

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 101-113

  Mayer, Jeremy D ^a   Kirby, Lynn ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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