What's left and who's right? A Q-method study of individual and contextual influences on the meaning of ideological labels

Political Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-173

  Zechmeister, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Ideological labels; Left; Mexico; Q methodology; Right

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746430396     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-006-9006-5     Document Type: Article

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