Explaining The Limited Success Of The Communist-Successor Left In Slovakia: The Case Of The Party Of The Democratic Left (SDL')

Party Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-191

  Haughton, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communist successor parties; Path dependency; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642411474     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068804040499     Document Type: Article

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