Election-year stimuli and the timing of voter registration

Party Politics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-374

  Gimpel, James G ^a   Dyck, Joshua J ^b   Shaw, Daron R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Party mobilization; Political participation; Presidential elections; Voter registration; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147197920     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068807075941     Document Type: Article

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