The politics of inequality: Voter mobilization and left parties in advanced industrial states

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 675-705

  Pontusson, Jonas ^a   Rueda, David ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electoral politics; Ideology; Industrialized democracies; Inequality; Left parties; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951649665     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414009358672     Document Type: Article

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