Clinching the 'return to Europe': The referendums on EU accession in Estonia and Latvia

West European Politics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 716-748

  Mikkel, Evald ^a   Pridham, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; REFERENDUM; REGIONAL POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LATVIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 5044231510     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0140238042000249958     Document Type: Article

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