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The Phantom Respondents: Opinion Surveys and Political Representation (Michigan Studies in Political Analysis)

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John O. Brehm

University of Michigan Press, 1993

An excellent resource for those interested in opinion polls
Brehm's book is an excellent treatment of the problem of survey non-response. It is a well-known fact that in academic surveys of public opinion and attitudes that it is getting increasingly difficult to get people to agree to spend even a few minutes on the phone answering any type of survey questions. There is strong reason to believe that this problem is even worse for non-academic ...

Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public (Michigan Studies in Political ...
John O. Brehm, Scott Gates

University of Michigan Press, 1999

Bureaucrats perform most of the tasks of government, profoundly influencing the daily lives of Americans. But who, or what, controls what bureaucrats do? John Brehm and Scott Gates examine who influences whether federal, state, and local bureaucrats work, shirk, or sabotage policy. The authors combine deductive models and computer simulations of bureaucratic behavior with statistical analysis in order to assess the competing influences over ...