Presidential voting and the local variability of economic hardship

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Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Cho, Wendy K Tam ^a   Gimpel, James G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic voting; Geographically weighted regression; Political geography; Presidential elections; The 2008 presidential election

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549106923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1286     Document Type: Article

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