Patriotism, pigskins, and politics: An empirical examination of expressive behavior and voting

Public Choice

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 97-108

  Laband, David N ^a   Pandit, Ram ^a   Sophocleus, John P ^b   Laband, Anne M ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Expressive behavior; Political expressiveness; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249094024     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9341-7     Document Type: Article

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