Do voters vote for government coalitions? Testing downs' pessimistic conclusion

Party Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 691-705

  Blais, André ^a   Aldrich, John H ^d   Indridason, Indridi H ^b   Levine, Renan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalitions; Downs; Israel; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749543452     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068806068594     Document Type: Article

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