What Moves Partisanship?: Migration, State Partisan Environment Change, and Party Identification

American Politics Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 880-902

  MacDonald, Jason A ^a   Franko Jr , William W ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Migration; Party identification; Political behavior; Political geography; State politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349144607     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X08319649     Document Type: Article

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