Narrow Victories and Hard Games: Revisiting the Primary Divisiveness Hypothesis

American Politics Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1052-1071

  Wichowsky, Amber ^a   Niebler, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

competitive primaries; divisive primaries; general election vote share; political party nominations; presidential primaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957255734     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X10369660     Document Type: Article

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