Angry white men: Individual and contextual predictors of support for the british national party

Political Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-25

  Ford, Robert ^a   Goodwin, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 74049120420     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2009.00829.x     Document Type: Article

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