Party responsiveness and socio-economic problem-solving in western democracies

Party Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 393-404

  Pennings, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Institutions; Party responsiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007269297     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068898004003007     Document Type: Article

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