Issue salience in regional and national party manifestos in the UK

West European Politics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 992-1014

  Pogorelis, Robertas ^b   Maddens, Bart ^a   Swenden, Wilfried ^b   Fabre, Elodie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICS; REGIONAL POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 29344453622     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: 17439655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402380500310667     Document Type: Article

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