Voting and values: Reciprocal effects over time

Political Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 465-485

  Vecchione, Michele ^a   Caprara, Gianvittorio ^a   Dentale, Francesco ^a   Schwartz, Shalom H ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Basic values; Left right ideology; Political values; Reciprocal effects; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880926077     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pops.12011     Document Type: Article

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