Cross-Cutting Messages and Political Tolerance: An Experiment Using Evangelical Protestants

Political Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 495-515

  Robinson, Carin ^a  

^a HOOD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Political tolerance; Religion; Social networks; Source credibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449305041     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9118-9     Document Type: Article

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