Exploring the direct and indirect effects of elite influence on public opinion

• Lauren Ratliff Santoro ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: laurenratliffsantoro@utdallas.edu

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8914-4507

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• Elias Assaf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Software

  Current address: Research Consulting, Pharmacy Analytics and Consulting, Humana Inc., Louisville, KY, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Robert M. Bond,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5026-2186

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• Skyler J. Cranmer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Eloise E. Kaizar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• David J. Sivakoff

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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