2002 State Legislative Survey

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Principal Investigator(s): Carey, John M.; Niemi, Richard G.; Powell, Lynda W.; Moncrief, Gary

Summary: This survey of state legislators updates and expands the 1995 Carey, Niemi, and Powell survey, STATE LEGISLATIVE SURVEY AND CONTEXTUAL DATA, 1995: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 3021), which asked many of the same questions. Questionnaires were mailed to all 7,430 state legislators (50 states, 99 chambers) in February 2002, with follow-up letters in March and May of the same year. State legislators were surveyed on the importance of various factors in learning how to do their job, the importance of vari... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20960.v1

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