Policy positions, issue importance, and party competition in new democracies

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-72

  Tavits, Margit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electoral volatility; Issue importance; New parties; Party system stabilization; Postcommunist; Spatial elections

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749068292     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414006293857     Document Type: Article

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