Climate change beliefs count: Relationships with voting outcomes at the 2010 Australian federal election

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 124-141

  McCrea, Rod ^a   Leviston, Zoe ^a   Walker, Iain ^a,b   Shyy, Tung Kai ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Denial; Elections; Politics; Scepticism; Voting behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973463611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21953325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v3i1.376     Document Type: Article

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