Pre-electoral commitments and government formation

Public Choice

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 45-64

  Debus, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coalition theories; Content analysis; Endogeneity problems; Ideological heterogeneity; Pre electoral commitments

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249103611     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9338-2     Document Type: Article

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