Abiding by Segregation: Race and the Domestication of Public Opinion Research

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Lynn Sanders, Professor of Political Science, University of Virginia

Lynn Sanders is the author of Integrated Opinion in a Divided Democracy (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2006). This new work advances an historically sensitive, developmental perspective on the methodological categories employed by public opinion researchers by examining the relationship between survey methodology, and our understanding of public opinion on race. Professor Sanders teaches courses on American politics, race, gender, public opinion and political psychology.