Voters, satisficing, and policymaking: Recent directions in the study of electoral politics

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 191-211

  Brooks, Clem ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elections; Linkage; Mass opinion; Social policy; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749178434     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123142     Document Type: Article

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