The potential electoral disadvantages of a catch-all party: Ideological variance among republicans and democrats in the 50 US states

Party Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-210

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electoral competition; Ideology; US politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039036131     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068899005002004     Document Type: Article

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