The party political make-up of EU legislative bodies

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1243-1253

  Warntjen, Andreas ^a   Hix, Simon ^b   Crombez, Christophe ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dataset; EU; Left right; Measurement of political positions; Political parties; Pro anti Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449120558     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760802407813     Document Type: Article

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