Partisan reinforcement and the poor: The impact of context on explanations for poverty

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 744-764

  Hopkins, Daniel J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67749106480     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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