Keeping up with the joneses: The interplay of personal and collective evaluations in voter turnout

Political Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-340

  Killian, Mitchell ^a   Schoen, Ryan ^a   Dusso, Aaron ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic status; Pocketbook; Sociotropic; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249123755     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-007-9051-8     Document Type: Article

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