Don't blame primary voters for polarization

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Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Abramowitz, Alan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elections; Partisan polarization; Political parties; Primary voters

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849013246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1210     Document Type: Review

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