Racial Disparities in Political Participation Across Issues: The Role of Issue-Specific Motivators

Political Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-32

  Holbrook, Allyson L ^a   Sterrett, David ^b   Johnson, Timothy P ^a   Krysan, Maria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude importance; Ethnicity; Issue publics; Political participation; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958552220     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-015-9299-3     Document Type: Article

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