Conservative protestantism and opposition to state-sponsored lotteries: Evidence from the 1997 Texas poll

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 356-369

  Ellison, Christopher G ^a   Nybroten, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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