The Not-So-Ambivalent Public: Policy Attitudes in the Political Culture of Ambivalence

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

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 93-129

  Steenbergen, Marco R ^a   Brewer, Paul R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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