National Election Studies Center for Political Studies

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Report on Workshop Preparing for 1980 Presidential Election: Research and development (R&D) in preparation of the Center's 1980 Presidential Election Study was the theme of a two-day workshop held at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, August 14–15, 1978, under the auspices of the NES Board of Overseers. Those invited included John Aldrich, Michigan State; Richard Brody, Stanford; Steven Chaffee, Wisconsin; Jack Dennis, Wisconsin; Lutz Erbring, Michigan; John Kessel, Ohio State; Donald Kinder, Yale; Richard Niemi, Rochester; and Herbert Weisberg, Ohio State. Sitting in were CPS senior scholars Philip Converse and Kent Jennings as well as CPS staffers Arthur Miller, Maria Sanchez and Ann Robinson. Board members participating were Warren Miller, the principal investigator and director of CPS; Heinz Eulau, Stanford; John Jackson, Pennsylvania; David Sears, California (Los Angeles); and Merrill Shanks, California (Berkeley), who served as workshop convener.