Making the political landscape visible: Mapping and analyzing voting patterns in an ideological space

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 785-807

  Leuthold, Heinrich ^a   Hermann, Michael ^a   Fabrikant, Sara Irina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; MAPPING; PARTY POLITICS; VISUALIZATION; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 35448944435     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b3304t     Document Type: Article

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