Attitude Strength and Response Stability of a Quasi-Balanced Political Alienation Scale in a Panel Study

Studies in Public Opinion: Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 268-292

  Billiet, Jaak ^a   Swyngedouw, Marc ^a   Waege, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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