'We'll finish what we've started': The 2002 Slovak parliamentary elections

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 65-90

  Haughton, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; LEADERSHIP; PARTY POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0346275189     PISSN: 13523279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13523270300660029     Document Type: Article

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