Public support for political compromise on a volatile racial issue: Insight from the survey experiment

Political Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 423-439

  Glaser, James M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confederate flag; Group conflict theory; Public attitudes toward political process; Racial politics; Survey experimentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745322942     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00508.x     Document Type: Review

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