A spatial cross-sectional analysis of political trends in Italian municipalities

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 431-451

  Santolini, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fiscal interaction; Political trend; Spatial econometrics

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IDEOLOGY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 56349115075     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2008.00201.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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