Parties, voters and policy priorities in the Netherlands, 1971-2002

Party Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-45

  Pennings, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Government declarations; Party pledges; Voter priorities

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844298382     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068805048471     Document Type: Article

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