Explaining the party-policy link: Established approaches and theoretical developments

Party Politics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 493-512

  Mulé, Rosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intra party conflicts; Party competition; Party goals; Unitary actor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040325718     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068897003004003     Document Type: Article

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