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Dutch-American comparisons of the “sense of political efficacy”

Some Remarks on Cross-cultural “Robustness” of Scales

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Paper delivered at the International Conference on Comparative Electoral Behavior, Survey Research Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 5–8, 1967.

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Mokken, R.J. Dutch-American comparisons of the “sense of political efficacy”. Qual Quant 3, 125–152 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00166507

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