Why do political parties survive? An analytical discussion

Party Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-17

  Yanai, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Party definition; Party future; Party role; Party survival; Representative democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039032630     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068899005001001     Document Type: Article

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