Can we promote cohesion through contact? Intergroup contact and the development of community cohesion

Changing Local Governance, Changing Citizens

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-110

  Goodwin, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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