The heritability of partisan attachment

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 601-613

  Settle, Jaime E ^a   Dawes, Christopher T ^a   Fowler, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Political methodology; Political psychology; Public opinion and political participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 60549102489     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912908327607     Document Type: Article

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