Bringing the members back in? Democratizing candidate selection in Britain and Spain

Party Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 343-361

  Hopkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candidates; Cohesion; Membership; Primaries; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039189906     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068801007003005     Document Type: Article

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