Party-orchestrated activities for legislative party goals: Campaigns for majorities in the US House Of Representatives in the 1990s

Party Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 275-295

  Kolodny, Robin ^b   Dwyre, Diana ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campaigns; Elections; Party orchestration; Political parties; US Congress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040811516     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068898004003001     Document Type: Article

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