Bread and butter à la française: Multiparty forecasts of the French legislative vote (1981-2007)

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-31

  Arzheimer, Kai ^a   Evans, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic voting; Election forecasting; France; Regression; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149091303     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.05.025     Document Type: Article

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