Good, Bad, and Ambivalent: The Consequences of Multidimensional Political Attitudes

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

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 63-92

  Meffert, Michael F ^a   Guge, Michael ^b   Lodge, Milton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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