Political Mobilisation, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: The Conditional Effect of Political Parties

Political Studies

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 101-122

  Helbling, Marc ^a   Reeskens, Tim ^b   Stolle, Dietlind ^c  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Immigration; Political parties; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922855792     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12087     Document Type: Article

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