The perils of pre-election polling: Election cycles and the exacerbation of measurement error in illiberal regimes

Pre-election polls are increasingly being used to forecast and study elections in new and weak democracies yet the tension that surrounds elections in less liberal regimes may make data from such surveys particularly prone to measurement error. Polls conducted before and after the 2011 Ugandan elect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth Carlson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-05-01
Series:Research & Politics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168018774728