Government formation in multi-level settings: Spanish regional coalitions and the quest for vertical congruence

Party Politics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-115

  Ştefuriuc, Irina ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Elite respondents; Regional politics; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849162840     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068808097895     Document Type: Article

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