Effects of issue frames on aversion to ethnic-targeted school policies

Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 96-106

  Van Londen, Marieke ^a   Coenders, Marcel ^b   Scheepers, Peer ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Computer assisted survey experiments; Counter framing; Equal opportunity policies; Issue framing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954780882     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000011     Document Type: Article

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