Understanding cleavages in party systems: Issue position and issue salience in 13 post-communist democracies

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 280-313

  Rohrschneider, Robert ^a   Whitefield, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central Eastern Europe; Cleavages; Parties; Party systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149170308     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414008325285     Document Type: Article

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