Practice and payment: Determinants of candidate list position in European parliament elections

European Union Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 533-552

  Gherghina, Sergiu ^a   Chiru, Mihail ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

European elections; legislative recruitment; MEPs; party list; Romania

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649943159     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: 17412757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116510380284     Document Type: Article

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