Neither ideologues nor agnostics: Alternative voters’ belief system in an age of Partisan politics

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-95

  Baldassarri, Delia ^a   Goldberg, Amir ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE; CULTURE; HUMANS; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925285612     PISSN: 00029602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/676042     Document Type: Article

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