Bridging partisan divisions over antiterrorism policies: The role of threat perceptions

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-47

  Malhotra, Neil ^a   Popp, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

experiment; partisanship; polarization; policy attitudes; terrorism; threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858239000     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912910385251     Document Type: Article

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