Sticking together: Explaining comparative centre-right party success in post-communist central and Eastern Europe

Party Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 407-434

  Hanley, Sen ^a   Szczerbiak, Aleks ^b   Haughton, Tim ^c   Fowler, Brigid ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d House of Commons   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centre right; Czech republic; Hungary; Parties; Poland

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349096902     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068808090253     Document Type: Article

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