What affects voter turnout?

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 111-125

  Blais, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Closeness; Electoral systems; Institutions; Party systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745766490     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.9.070204.105121     Document Type: Article

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