Missing the message and shooting the messenger: Benoit and Laver's 'response'

Electoral Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 136-141

  Budge, Ian ^a   Pennings, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTY POLITICS;

PORPHYRA UMBILICALIS;

EID: 33846806020     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.03.010     Document Type: Note

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