Decomposing the vote: Individual, communal, and cantonal sources of voting behavior in Switzerland

Swiss Political Science Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 403-424

  Steenbergen, Marco R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cantonal and communal context; Hierarchical linear model; Voting propensities

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650152293     PISSN: 14247755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2010.tb00435.x     Document Type: Review

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