Economic voting and electoral behavior: How do individual, local, and national factors affect the partisan choice?

Economics and Politics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 265-296

  Leigh, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL ECONOMY; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22444435569     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2005.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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