Current emotion research in political science: How emotions help democracy overcome its collective action problem

Emotion Review

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 455-463

  Groenendyk, Eric ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

collective action; deliberation; emotion; information processing; information seeking; political participation; politics; tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053324933     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911410746     Document Type: Article

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