A Two-edged Sword: The Differential Effect of Religious Belief and Religious Social Context on Attitudes towards Democracy

Political Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 249-276

  Ben Nun Bloom, Pazit ^a   Arikan, Gizem ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Democratic attitudes; Heteroskedastic maximum likelihood models; Religious behavior; Religious belief; World Values Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861742647     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-011-9157-x     Document Type: Article

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