Political and partisan cycles in the Australian economy

Australian Economic Papers

Volumn 36, Issue 68, 1997, Pages 42-54

  Crosby, Mark ^a   Brown, Diane ^a   Malady, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTION; MACROECONOMICS; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031397889     PISSN: 0004900X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8454.1997.tb00819.x     Document Type: Article

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