Terrorism’s effects on social capital in European countries

Public Choice

Volumn 169, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 231-250

  Arvanitidis, Paschalis ^a   Economou, Athina ^a   Kollias, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Institutional trust; Social capital; Social trust; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988706145     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: 15737101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-016-0370-3     Document Type: Article

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