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To Survey or Not to Survey: The Use of Exit Polling as a Teaching Tool

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2003

Alexandra Cole
Alexandra Cole
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assistant professor of political science at California State University, Northridge. In addition to teaching research methods, she also teaches courses in western European politics and political behavior. She was formerly the associate director of the Ludie and David C. Henley Social Science Research Laboratory at Chapman University. She can be reached at alexandria. cole@csun.edu
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 245 - 252
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© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

This was originally presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, and the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association. I would like to thank Douglas Rose (Tulane), David P. Redlawsk (University of Iowa), Fred M. Monardi (University of Wisconsin-Parkside), and James A. McCann (Purdue University) for administering the student surveys in their political science courses, as well as the PS anonymous reviewers for their comments.

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