Electoral poaching and party identification

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-302

  Kovenock, Dan ^a   Roberson, Brian ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Poaching; Political polarization; Redistributive politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 45549100883     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: 14603667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951629808090136     Document Type: Article

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