The religious experience as affecting ambivalence: the case of democratic performance evaluation in Israel

Democratization

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-51

  Ben Nun Bloom, Pazit ^a   Zemach, Mina ^b   Arian, Asher ^c,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Dahaf Research Institute   (Israel)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d The Israel Democracy Institute   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Democratic performance evaluations; Israel; Religiosity; Value conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 78951486949     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2011.532610     Document Type: Article

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