Belief in a Just World and Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action.
The effect of identity, as socially constructed by race and gender, on social policies has been widely examined in policy analysis. Policy analysis would be improved by a wider discussion that includes the influence of social-psychological constructs on social provision. We fill this gap by drawing...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 325 - 344 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2014
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