Voter inequality, turnout and information: Effects in a cross-national perspective

Working Paper of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Volumn , Issue 297, 2002, Pages

  Tóka, Gábor ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOCRACY; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

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