A taste of honey is worse than none at all?: Coping with the generic challenges of support party status in Sweden and New Zealand

Party Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-202

  Bale, Tim ^a   Bergman, Torbjörn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coalition and minority government; Contract parliamentarism; Greens; Support parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645707538     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068806061337     Document Type: Article

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