Searching for the right organization: Ideology and party structure in East-Central Europe

Party Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 455-477

  Enyedi, Zsolt ^a,b   Linek, Luk ^c  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Czech republic; Hungary; Ideology; Party organization; Post communism

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349166315     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068808090255     Document Type: Article

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