Estimating constituency preferences from sparse survey data using auxiliary geographic information

Political Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 455-470

  Selb, Peter ^a   Munzert, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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EID: 84856994110     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpr034     Document Type: Article

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