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Contributions of Survey Research to Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Henry E. Brady
Henry E. Brady*
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University of California, Berkeley
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The Public Value of Political Research
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 33 , Special Issue 1: The Public Value of Political Science Research , March 2000 , pp. 47 - 58
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David Collier, Jim Gibson, Richard Johnston, Cynthia S. Kaplan, Samantha Luks, Nelson Polsby, Virginia Sapiro, Kay Schlozman, Merrill Shanks, Paul Sniderman, Sidney Verba, and John Zaller made valuable suggestions on this paper. It is worth emphasizing that this paper draws heavily upon my own research experience and it expresses my personal reflections on the contributions of survey research. It is not meant as a comprehensive review of the field.

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