Political expertise, social worldviews, and ideology: Translating "competitive jungles" and "dangerous worlds" into ideological reality

Social Justice Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 259-279

  Federico, Christopher M ^a   Hunt, Corrie V ^a   Ergun, Damla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideology; Political expertise; Right wing authoritarianism; Social dominance orientation; Worldviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349232392     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-009-0097-0     Document Type: Article

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