Individual and contextual determinants of electoral participation

Swiss Political Science Review

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 13-47

  Bühlmann, Marc ^a   Freitag, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextual and individual determinants; Electoral participation; Multilevel analysis; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548548229     PISSN: 14247755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2006.tb00059.x     Document Type: Review

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