An exceptional election: Performance, values, and crisis in the 2008 presidential election

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Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Campbell, James E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b National Honor Society of Political Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Campaign spending; Economy; Elections; Open seat; Polarization; Political parties; Presidency; Retrospective voting; Wall street meltdown

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649134206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1276     Document Type: Article

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