Cultural values and governance quality as correlates of road traffic fatalities: A nation level analysis

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1894-1901

  Gaygisiz, Esma ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Culture; Governance; Moderator effect; Traffic accident fatalities; Values

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CELL CULTURE; CRASHWORTHINESS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MODERATORS; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; CULTURAL FACTORS; GOVERNANCE; POWER DISTANCES; ROAD TRAFFIC FATALITIES; TRAFFIC FATALITIES; VALUE DIMENSIONS; VALUES;

FUEL ECONOMY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EQUIPMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POLICY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL VALUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78049357332     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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