Social cleavages, electoral reform and party choice: Israel's 'natural' experiment

Electoral Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 399-423

  Andersen, Robert ^a   Yaish, Meir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electoral reform; Israeli society; Social cleavages; Voting behaviour

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL SYSTEM; ETHNICITY; PARTY POLITICS; RELIGION; SOCIAL STATUS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0038269682     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-3794(01)00055-5     Document Type: Article

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