Macro salience: How economic and political contexts mediate popular evaluations of the democracy deficit in the European union

Journal of Politics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1029-1045

  Rohrschneider, Robert ^a   Loveless, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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EID: 79951737112     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022381610000514     Document Type: Article

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