Reassessing Public Opinion Polling in the Truman Administration

Presidential Studies Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 325-332

  Rottinghaus, Brandon ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1948 election; apparatus; polling; public opinion; Truman

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048901865     PISSN: 03604918     EISSN: 17415705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5705.2003.tb00032.x     Document Type: Article

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