Do Parties "Playing the Race Card" Undermine Natives' Support for Redistribution? Evidence From Europe

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 519-549

  Schmidt, Alexander W ^a   Spies, Dennis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

European Social Survey; migration; multilevel analysis; party discourse; redistribution; welfare chauvinism; welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893663483     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414013488542     Document Type: Article

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