This book describes how surveys are conducted in such a way that they can be believed, explains how to read statistical reports and analyze data and provides guidelines that are useful in evaluating polls. Using examples from contemporary large surveys and polls, as well as from the media, the authors stress the importance of understanding tables ...
The 104th Congress, the first in four decades to be Republican-controlled, may prove to have ushered in an era of party dominance by congressional Republicans, or to be a transitory aberration. Either way, the 104th is a watershed in congressional history. Using the theatre metaphor to characterize the actions of Congress and to help make the ...
Drawing heavily on the National Election Studies, Weisberg and his colleagues have compiled an invaluable, data-rich analysis of voter behavior and public opinion in the presidential and congressional elections of '92.
Using a clear, expository style that builds from simple to more complex topics, Weisberg explains how to measure the centre and variation on a single variable. Beginning with an exploration of how to measure variables with different numeric or non-numeric properties, the volume covers such important topics as ways to examine distributions of ...
"Models of Voting in Presidential Elections" offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of the determinants of voter participation and vote choice at play in the 2000 presidential election. It examines the larger issues surrounding the election and its outcome.
In 1939, George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion published a pamphlet optimistically titled "The New Science of Public Opinion Measurement". At the time, though, survey research was in its infancy, and only now, six decades later, can public opinion measurement be appropriately called a science, based in part on the development of the ...
From a distinguished Ohio State team, this data-rich collection analyzes a full range of 1996 National Election Study data to explain voter behavior in the Clinton/Dole and congressional races. Special attention is given to the rhythm of reelection that provides the motif for modern-day elections.
Anthology of classic articles in Congressional scholarship exposes students to the research that has shaped the field and the important streams of thought in political science. Classics in Congressional Politics is a collection of highly regarded scholarly articles covering a broad array of topics in the legislative field. The editors have ...
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Claggett, William; Schonfeld, William R.; Margolis, Michael;...
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co...
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Binding: Softcover
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Moe, Terry M.; Songer, Donald R.; Muller, Edward N.; Jukam,...
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Binding: Softcover
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Echols, John M. III; Rapoport, Ronald B.; Poole, Keith T.;...
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Binding: Softcover
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Kuklinski, James H.; Metlay, Daniel S.; Kay, W.D.; Claggett,...
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Binding: Softcover
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Beck, Nathaniel; Feldman, Stanley; Hibbing, John R.; Pollock...
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Binding: Softcover
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Conover, Pamela Johnson; Feldman, Stanley; Cox, Gary W.;...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date Published: 1981
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date Published: 1981
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Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future
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Alfred Stephan, Professor Alfred Stepan (Editor)
