Declining memberships, changing members? european political party members in a new era

Party Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 823-843

  Scarrow, Susan E ^a   Gezgor, Burcu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; ideological distance; members; membership composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049298716     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068809346078     Document Type: Article

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