The relative electoral impact of central party co-ordination and size of party membership at constituency level

Electoral Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 664-676

  Fisher, Justin ^a   Denver, David ^b   Hands, Gordon ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Constituency campaigning; Elections; Party centralization; Party members

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; PARTY POLITICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745311422     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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