Does democratization depress participation? Voter turnout in the Latin American and Eastern European transitional democracies

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 363-377

  Kostadinova, Tatiana ^a   Power, Timothy J ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disengagement; Electoral dynamics; Founding elections; Third wave democracies; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548857388     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912907304154     Document Type: Article

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