The first decade of post-communist elections and voting: What have we studied, and how have we studied it?

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 271-304

  Tucker, Joshua A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data; Election; Electoral; Methodology; Poland; Russia; Vote

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036406631     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.5.100201.102917     Document Type: Review

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