Support for right-wing extremist ideology: Socio-economic indicators and socio-psychological mechanisms of social identification

Comparative Sociology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-36

  Pedahzur, Ami ^a   Canetti Nisim, Daphna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 4344682811     PISSN: 15691322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1569133041513756     Document Type: Article

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