View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives Living out our Ethnic Instincts: Ideological Beliefs among Right-Wing Activists in Norway Publisert i Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo (1998) Nation and Race : The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture, Boston: Northeastern University Press. Katrine Fangen, Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi
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