Left, center, right: What are the foundations of the Swiss citizens' ideological self-placement?;Links, Mitte, Rechts: Worauf gründet die ideologische Selbstidentifikation der Schweizer und Schweizerinnen?

Swiss Political Science Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-285

  Milic, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Left right self identification; Party affinity; Political value beliefs; Structural equation modeling; Voting behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249086127     PISSN: 14247755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2008.tb00103.x     Document Type: Article

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