Partisanship, performance and personality: Competing and complementary characterizations of the 2001 British general election

Party Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 317-345

  Bartle, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal modelling; Evaluations of party leaders; Party identification; Prospective voting; Retrospective voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041878340     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068803009003003     Document Type: Article

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