Explaining the 'quiet earthquake': Voting behaviour in the first election to the National Assembly for Wales

Electoral Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 635-650

  Trystan, D ^a   Scully, R ^a   Wyn Jones, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Devolution; Multi level voting; National Assembly for Wales; Second order voting; Voting behaviour

Indexed keywords

DEVOLUTION; ELECTION; PARTY POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 0141873033     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-3794(02)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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