The politics of coalition

Britain at the Polls 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 242-266

  Norton, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446269220.n9     Document Type: Chapter

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