Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 83-108

  Benoit, Kenneth ^a   Laver, Michael ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; GEOPOLITICS; PARTY POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 26044438449     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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