Latent liberalism?: Sympathy and support for the liberal democrats at the 1997 British general election

Party Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 711-738

  Fieldhouse, Ed ^a   Russell, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Issue voting; Liberal democrats; Modelling; Voting behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040158361     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068801007006003     Document Type: Article

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