Contagious parties: Anti-immigration parties and their impact on other parties' immigration stances in contemporary western europe

Party Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 563-586

  van Spanje, Joost ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

anti immigration parties; elections; immigration; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956198839     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068809346002     Document Type: Article

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