The Swedish Pirate Party and the 2009 European Parliament Election: Protest or Issue Voting?

Politics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 121-128

  Erlingsson, Gissur Ó ^a   Persson, Mikael ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POPULAR PROTEST; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

SWEDEN;

EID: 80052396591     PISSN: 02633957     EISSN: 14679256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2011.01411.x     Document Type: Article

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