Stock ownership, political beliefs, and party identification from the "ownership society" to the financial meltdown

Accounting, Economics and Law

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Cotton Nessler, Natalie C ^a   Davis, Gerald F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive dissonance; Identity conflict; Political identification; Stock ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939646522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21522820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/2152-2820.1035     Document Type: Article

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