Partisan preferences, electoral prospects, and economic expectations

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 571-596

  Ladner, Matthew ^a   Wlezien, Christopher ^b  

^a Goldwater Institute   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogeneity; Forecast; Perceptions; Rational; Uncertainty; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249140298     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414005285758     Document Type: Article

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