Social trust: Fairness matters more than homogeneity

Political Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 701-721

  You, Jong Sung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fairness; Generalized interpersonal trust; Heterogeneity; Homogeneity; Multilevel analysis; Social trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866538444     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00893.x     Document Type: Article

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