How Civic is the Civic Culture? Explaining Community Participation Using the 2005 English Citizenship Survey

Political Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 230-252

  John, Peter ^a   Fieldhouse, Edward ^a   Liu, Hanhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community action; Political participation; Political trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955848134     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00891.x     Document Type: Article

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