Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification

Political Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 653-688

  Gerber, Alan S ^a   Huber, Gregory A ^a   Doherty, David ^b   Dowling, Conor M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Partisan strength; Party identification; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868480429     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-011-9178-5     Document Type: Article

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