Popular explanations of poverty in europe: Effects of contextual and individual characteristics across 28 European countries

Acta Sociologica

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-72

  Lepianka, Dorota ^a   Gelissen, John ^b   van Oorschot, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Europe; EVS; Poverty; Poverty attributions; Public opinion; Rank ordered logit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949546304     PISSN: 00016993     EISSN: 15023869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001699309357842     Document Type: Article

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