The power of ideologically concentrated minorities

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-74

  Merrill, Samuel ^a   Grofman, Bernard ^b   Brunell, Thomas ^b   Koetzle, William ^b  

^a WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideological concentration; Median; Mixture distribution; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033484479     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951692899011001003     Document Type: Article

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