It's the economy stupid: Macroeconomics and federal elections in Australia

Economic Record

Volumn 76, Issue 235, 2000, Pages 354-364

  Cameron, Lisa ^a   Crosby, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; MACROECONOMICS; PARTY POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034474625     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2000.tb00032.x     Document Type: Article

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