Review: Twenty-Five Days to go: Measuring and Interpreting the Trends in Public Opinion During the 1993 Russian Election Campaign

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Journal Article THE POLLS—REVIEW: TWENTY-FIVE DAYS TO GO: MEASURING AND INTERPRETING THE TRENDS IN PUBLIC OPINION DURING THE 1993 RUSSIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN Get access WILLIAM L. MILLER, WILLIAM L. MILLER WILLIAM L. MILLER is Edward Caird Professor of Politics in the department of politics at Glasgow University. STEPHEN WHITE is professor of politics in the department of politics at Glasgow University, PAUL HEYWOOD was formerly senior lecturer in the department of politics at Glasgow University but has recently taken up a new appointment as professor of politics at the University of Nottingham. This is a much shortened and revised version of a paper presented at the twenty-seventh national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, October 25–29, 1995. This research was funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under award number R233538 to the authors. The Russian surveys were carried out by ROMIR (Moscow) under the direction of Elena Bashkirova. Matthew Wyman acted as research assistant at Glasgow University. Gordon Heald and Allan Hyde (Opinion Research Business, London) set up the initial network of links between Glasgow University and four former Soviet Union/East Central Europe survey research agencies, including ROMLR. Comment and interpretation in this article remain the responsibility of the authors. Some of the key findings in this article first appeared, in highly abbreviated form, in our “Zhirinovsky's Voters,” press release no. 5 (ESRC, London; Politics Department, Glasgow University, Glasgow, February 16, 1994). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar STEPHEN WHITE, STEPHEN WHITE WILLIAM L. MILLER is Edward Caird Professor of Politics in the department of politics at Glasgow University. STEPHEN WHITE is professor of politics in the department of politics at Glasgow University, PAUL HEYWOOD was formerly senior lecturer in the department of politics at Glasgow University but has recently taken up a new appointment as professor of politics at the University of Nottingham. This is a much shortened and revised version of a paper presented at the twenty-seventh national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, October 25–29, 1995. This research was funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under award number R233538 to the authors. The Russian surveys were carried out by ROMIR (Moscow) under the direction of Elena Bashkirova. Matthew Wyman acted as research assistant at Glasgow University. Gordon Heald and Allan Hyde (Opinion Research Business, London) set up the initial network of links between Glasgow University and four former Soviet Union/East Central Europe survey research agencies, including ROMLR. Comment and interpretation in this article remain the responsibility of the authors. Some of the key findings in this article first appeared, in highly abbreviated form, in our “Zhirinovsky's Voters,” press release no. 5 (ESRC, London; Politics Department, Glasgow University, Glasgow, February 16, 1994). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PAUL HEYWOOD PAUL HEYWOOD WILLIAM L. MILLER is Edward Caird Professor of Politics in the department of politics at Glasgow University. STEPHEN WHITE is professor of politics in the department of politics at Glasgow University, PAUL HEYWOOD was formerly senior lecturer in the department of politics at Glasgow University but has recently taken up a new appointment as professor of politics at the University of Nottingham. This is a much shortened and revised version of a paper presented at the twenty-seventh national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, October 25–29, 1995. This research was funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under award number R233538 to the authors. The Russian surveys were carried out by ROMIR (Moscow) under the direction of Elena Bashkirova. Matthew Wyman acted as research assistant at Glasgow University. Gordon Heald and Allan Hyde (Opinion Research Business, London) set up the initial network of links between Glasgow University and four former Soviet Union/East Central Europe survey research agencies, including ROMLR. Comment and interpretation in this article remain the responsibility of the authors. Some of the key findings in this article first appeared, in highly abbreviated form, in our “Zhirinovsky's Voters,” press release no. 5 (ESRC, London; Politics Department, Glasgow University, Glasgow, February 16, 1994). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, SPRING 1996, Pages 106–127, https://doi.org/10.1086/297741 Published: 01 January 1996