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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, ...
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 ...