Analysing 'Successor Parties': The Case of the True Finns

West European Politics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 803-825

  Arter, David ^a  

^a NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; PARTY POLITICS; POST-COMMUNISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84863891690     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: 17439655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2012.682346     Document Type: Article

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