The relationship of national and personal issue salience to attitude accessibility on foreign and domestic policy issues

Political Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 293-316

  Lavine, Howard ^a   Borgida, Eugene ^b   Sullivan, John L ^b   Thomsen, Cynthia J ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitude accessibility; Issue salience; Policy attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030153442     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3791812     Document Type: Article

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