Why Muslims like democracy yet have so little of it

Public Choice

Volumn 147, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 481-496

  Maseland, Robbert ^a   van Hoorn, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Culture; Marginal preferences; Measurement; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955575062     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-010-9642-5     Document Type: Article

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