Trust in a Time of Increasing Diversity: On the Relationship between Ethnic Heterogeneity and Social Trust in Denmark from 1979 until Today

Scandinavian Political Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 273-294

  Dinesen, Peter Thisted ^a   Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar ^b  

^a Department of Political Science ^*  (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 84867401951     PISSN: 00806757     EISSN: 14679477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9477.2012.00289.x     Document Type: Article

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