Does Religious Discrimination Promote Dissent? A Quantitative Analysis

Ethnopolitics

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 271-295

  Akbaba, Yasemin ^a   Taydas, Zeynep ^b  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84859363324     PISSN: 17449057     EISSN: 17449065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2011.561988     Document Type: Article

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