The spatial diffusion of party entrepreneurs in Swedish local politics

Political Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 857-874

  Erlingsson, Gissur Ó ^a,b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm School of Economics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Imitation; Local politics; New parties; Party entrepreneurs; Spatial diffusion; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL THEORY; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 58149326747     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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