Directional Theory of Issue Voting: The Case of the 1991 Parliamentary Elections in Flanders

Electoral Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-70

  Maddens, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL THEORY; ELECTION(1991); ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; ISSUE VOTING; PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION; VOTING BEHAVIOUR;

BELGIUM, FLANDERS;

EID: 0030473155     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0261-3794(94)00037-9     Document Type: Article

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