Mapping social capital across Europe: Findings, trends and methodological shortcomings of cross-national surveys

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Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-186

  Adam, Frane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Associational involvement; Comparative research; European Social Survey (ESS); European Values Study (EVS); Generalized trust; Quality of data; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449088613     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018408089077     Document Type: Article

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