An Experimental Investigation of Causal Attributions for the Political Behavior of Muslim Candidates: Can a Muslim Represent you?

Politics and Religion

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-276

  Braman, Eileen ^a   Sinno, Abdulkader H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85011477282     PISSN: 17550483     EISSN: 17440491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755048309000224     Document Type: Article

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