Intra-party politics and coalition formation: Evidence from Swedish local government

Party Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-89

  Bck, Hanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Coalition formation; Factionalization; Intra party democracy; Parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849053439     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068807081818     Document Type: Article

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