Owning the issue agenda: Party strategies and vote choices in British elections

Electoral Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 460-476

  Green, Jane ^a   Hobolt, Sara B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British elections; Issue ownership; Issue salience; Party competition; Spatial models; Valence; Voting behaviour

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; IDEOLOGY; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL RELATIONS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649120715     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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