Trust and Ethnic Fractionalization: The Importance of Religion as a Cross-Cutting Dimension

Kyklos

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-339

  Finseraas, Henning ^a   Jakobsson, Niklas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; ETHNICITY; RELIGION; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84863560612     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2012.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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