Raising the retirement age: Retrenchment, feedback and attitudes

How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 223-243

  Naumann, Elias ^a,b  

^a Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 84925300844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781782545491.00020     Document Type: Chapter

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