Representational consistency: Stability and change in political cleavages in Central and Eastern Europe

Politics and Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 667-690

  Whitefield, Stephen ^a   Rohrschneider, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL PROCESS; POST-COMMUNISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69149090605     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2009.00193.x     Document Type: Article

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