Pragmatists, ideologues and the general law of curvilinear disparity: The case of the Irish Labour party

Political Studies

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 786-805

  Kennedy, Fiachra ^a   Lyons, Pat ^b,d   Fitzgerald, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^d Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 37849187641     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00630.x     Document Type: Article

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