Racial environment and political participation

American Politics Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 471-501

  Matsubayashi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual effects; Political mobilization; Political participation; Power threat hypothesis; Racial diversity; Relational goods hypothesis; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952522988     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X09335486     Document Type: Article

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