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Article: Rational choice and the dynamics of collective political action: evaluating alternative models with panel data.
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- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Perhaps no area in mass political behavior research is beset with such serious methodological difficulties as the study of participation in political protest and other unconventional activities. Some of the problems, such as finding and eliciting truthful responses from the limited number of individuals who engage in these types of behaviors, can and have been remedied through better sampling and more sensitive interviewing methods in national and local probability surveys. A more fundamental problem, however, is that unlike voting or campaign participation, unconventional behavior does not occur during fixed periods, and hence researchers typically cannot plan a study in ...
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