Who are the spatial voting violators?

Electoral Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-125

  Boatright, Robert Guy ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideology; Presidential elections; Spatial voting theory

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL THEORY; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 39849102830     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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