Serving two masters: Using referenda to assess partisan versus dyadic legislative representation

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-123

  Masket, Seth E ^a   Noel, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electoral systems; ideal point estimation; parties; political methodology; political organizations; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858243382     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912910388188     Document Type: Article

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