The Moderating Impact of Social Networks on the Relationships Among Core Values, Partisanship, and Candidate Evaluations

Political Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 399-414

  Lupton, Robert N ^a   Singh, Shane P ^b   Thornton, Judd R ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core values; Partisanships; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942832298     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pops.12102     Document Type: Article

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