Anxious Publics: Worries About Crime and Immigration

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 477-506

  Fitzgerald, Jennifer ^a   Curtis, K Amber ^a   Corliss, Catherine L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crime; Germany; immigration attitudes; panel data; political interest; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859335261     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414011421768     Document Type: Article

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