Electoral accountability: Recent theoretical and empirical work

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 15, Issue , 2012, Pages 183-201

  Ashworth, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

campaigns and elections; incentives; political agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861427507     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-polisci-031710-103823     Document Type: Review

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