Electoral Competitiveness and Issue Voting

Political Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 645-663

  Lachat, Romain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electoral system; Fragmentation; Issue voting; Party identification; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255138063     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9151-8     Document Type: Article

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