Basic Personal Values and the Meaning of Left-Right Political Orientations in 20 Countries

Political Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 537-561

  Piurko, Yuval ^a   Schwartz, Shalom H ^a   Davidov, Eldad ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Left right; Liberal; Political orientations; Postcommunist countries; Traditional; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960155263     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2011.00828.x     Document Type: Article

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