The political and demographic predictors of candidate emergence in city council elections

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-300

  Krebs, Timothy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; URBAN POLITICS;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032707683     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/10780879922184383     Document Type: Article

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