Experts' political preferences and their impact on ideological bias: An unfolding analysis based on a Benoit-Laver expert survey

Party Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-321

  Curini, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Expert survey; Ideological bias; Italy; Left right dimension; Unfolding analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951659545     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068809341051     Document Type: Article

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