Societal projection: Beliefs concerning the relationship between development and inequality in China

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1069-1084

  Xie, Yu ^a   Thornton, Arland ^a   Wang, Guangzhou ^b   Lai, Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Attitudes; China; Development; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863106988     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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