Political awareness and partisan realignment: Are the unaware unevolved?

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 818-830

  Claassen, Ryan L ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

class; partisan realignment; political awareness; political information; race; southern politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955225366     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912910379228     Document Type: Article

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