Same game, different rules? gender differences in political participation

Sex Roles

Volumn 62, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 318-333

  Coffé, Hilde ^a   Bolzendahl, Catherine ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Citizenship; Cross national; Gender; Political participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951768744     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9729-y     Document Type: Article

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