Presidential conditional agenda setting in the former communist countries

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1155-1182

  Tsebelis, George ^a   Rizova, Tatiana P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cagenda setting; Post communist countries; Presidential and semipresidential regimes; Veto players

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448976054     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414006288979     Document Type: Article

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