Political parties, public opinion and European integration in post-Communist countries: The state of the art

European Union Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 141-160

  Rohrschneider, Robert ^a   Whitefield, Stephen ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European integration; Instrumental reasoning; Political parties; Political values; Post Communism; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646421935     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: 17412757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116506060915     Document Type: Article

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