Analysis of the unconventional political action scale: Results in Spain

Field Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 131-142

  Fernández Prados, Juan Sebastián ^a   Rojas Tejada, Antonio José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Postmaterialism; Reliability; Unconventional political action; Unconventional Political Action Scale; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044903668     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X03251553     Document Type: Article

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