Be careful what you wish for: The rise of responsible parties in American national politics

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2007, Pages 169-191

  Rae, Nicol G ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture war; Ideology; Mass parties; Party decline; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347366218     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.10.071105.100750     Document Type: Article

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