Entry:

Abramson, Paul R. and Ostrom, Charles W., “Response: Question Form and Context Effects in the Measurement of Partisanship: Experimental Tests of the Artifact Hypothesis,” American Political Science Review, 88 (December, 1994), 955-958.


Abstract:

The Gallup and Michigan SRC macropartisanship questions (political party identification) are not always comparable because one captures variable short-term partisan sentiments while the other taps into stabler long-term loyalties.

GSS Years:

1972-1993

Other Data Sets:

SRC, Gallup, Ohio poll 1991 & 1993

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
PARTYID

POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION