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Parties and Partisanship: A Brief Introduction
(Springer Verlag, 2002)
The article is an introduction to ten essays which will comprise a three-part special issue of the periodical Political Behavior. The essays are about partisanship in American politics. Geer summarizes the essays' topics ...
Do Open-Ended Questions Measure "Salient" Issues?
(Oxford University Press, 1991)
Closed-ended questions dominate most interview schedules. Yet the almost exclusive use of this form did not arise because open-ended questions, its major competitor, proved to be weak indicators of public opinion. Instead, ...
Rules Governing Presidential Primaries
(Cambridge University Press, 1986)
"Many observers of American politics have been highly critical of the proliferation of
primaries that occurred in the 1970s. One of the reasons given for this unfavorable assessment
is that the direct primary cannot ...
New Deal Issues and the American Electorate, 1952-1988
(Springer Verlag, 1992)
"As each presidential election passes into the history books, debate renews over the status of the New Deal Party System. This article addresses part of that debate by examining changes in the electorate's assessment of ...
Critical Realignments and the Public Opinion Poll
(Cambridge University Press, 1991)
"With the advent of the public opinion poll, politicians began to have access to highly reliable information about the electorate's views on issues. Prior to this development, party leaders could only make educated guesses ...
Electorate's Partisan Evaluations: Evidence of a Continuing Democratic Edge
(Oxford University Press, 1991)
"Scholars have devoted a good deal of attention to studying changes in how the public evaluates the Democratic and Republican parties. However, there have been few attempts to examine the underlying components of the changes ...
What Do Open-Ended Questions Measure?
(Oxford University Press, 1988)
"Open-ended questions are frequently used by survey researchers to measure public opinion. Some scholars, however, have doubts about how accurately these kinds of questions measure the views of the public. A chief concern ...