The nationalization of parties and party systems: An empirical measure and an application to the Americas

Party Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-166

  Jones, Mark P ^a   Mainwaring, Scott ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Latin America; Nationalization; Political parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041377655     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13540688030092002     Document Type: Article

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