Representation, corruption, and subjective well-being

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1607-1630

  Tavits, Margit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Government performance; Representation; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249107398     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414007308537     Document Type: Article

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