The impact of local and national economic conditions on legislative election results

Applied Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1727-1734

  Veiga, Francisco José ^a,b   Veiga, Linda Gonçalves ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b NIPE UM   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ELECTION; LOCAL ECONOMY; NATIONAL ECONOMY;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 77953103033     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701736107     Document Type: Article

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