Introduction: Political careers in multi-level systems

Regional and Federal Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 107-115

  Jens, Borchert ^a   Stolz, Klaus ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Federalism; Multi level systems; Political careers; Political professionalization; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957927720     PISSN: 13597566     EISSN: 17439434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2011.529756     Document Type: Editorial

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