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SYMPOSIUM: Gender and the radical right in comparative perspective

Gender, populist attitudes, and voting: explaining the gender gap in voting for populist radical right and populist radical left parties

Niels SpieringsDepartment of Sociology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Andrej ZasloveDepartment of Political Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Pages 821-847 | Published online: 20 Feb 2017

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