Legislative priorities and public opinion: Representation of partisan agendas in the Canadian House of Commons

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1006-1020

  Penner, Erin ^a,c   Blidook, Kelly ^b   Soroka, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Leacock Building ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Issue attentiveness; Oral questions; Parliamentary behaviour; Political representation; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749033336     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350176060023979     Document Type: Review

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