Personality traits, partisan attitudes, and voting behavior. evidence from Germany

Political Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 471-498

  Schoen, Harald ^a   Schumann, Siegfried ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five; Five factor model of personality; Germany; Partisan attitudes; Personality traits; Voting behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547495616     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2007.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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