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Measuring State Public Opinion with the Senate National Election Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Barbara Norrander
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Abstract

The surveys of Senate races from 1988 to 1992 conducted by the American National Election Study include a number of issue questions that can be aggregated to measure state public opinion. A simple-to-compute coefficient is used to judge the aggregated reliability of these measures. A comparison of these state public opinion measures on specific issues to more general indicators, such as state ideology and partisanship, demonstrates their usefulness in obtaining a richer depiction of public preferences for studies of state politics.

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State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 111 - 125
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association, 2001

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