Personality and Political Participation: The Mediation Hypothesis

Political Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-451

  Gallego, Aina ^a   Oberski, Daniel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Path models; Personality; Political psychology; Protest participation; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865426519     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-011-9168-7     Document Type: Article

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