Ideological Labels in America

Political Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 253-278

  Claassen, Christopher ^a   Tucker, Patrick ^b   Smith, Steven S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity; Operational ideology; Symbolic ideology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929833900     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-014-9272-6     Document Type: Article

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