Competition and coalescence in European party systems: Social democracy and christian democracy moving into the 21st century

Swiss Political Science Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-126

  Keman, Hans ^a,b   Pennings, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Comparative Political Science ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschuppen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electoral competition; Party family; Party system change; Political parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248033472     PISSN: 14247755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2006.tb00390.x     Document Type: Article

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