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The Two Faces of Public Opinion

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ID6232121
AuthorsAdam J Berinsky (0000-0001-7827-9396, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume43
Issue4
Pages1209
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2991824
OpenAlexW2169981250
LanguageEN
Citations received159
References cited32

presented at the 1998 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. For many helpful discussions regarding this project and comments on earlier drafts of this paper, I would like to thank Jake Bowers, Fred Cutler, Paul Freedman, Kim Gross, Vince Hutchings, John Jackson, Mark Joslyn, Cindy Kam, Ken Kollman, Nick Winter, seminar participants at Harvard University, Princeton University, The University of Chicago, and The University of Minnesota, and especially Nancy Burns and Donald Kinder. I, of course, am responsible for any errors that remain. The data used in this paper were made available by the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research. Neither the collector of the original data nor the consortium bears any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here. This material is based upon work supported under a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. All data and documentation necessary to replicate this analysis can be obtained from the author. The data analysis presented in this paper was conducted using LIMDEP 7.0

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