Political parties welfare image, electoral punishment and welfare state retrenchment

Comparative European Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-21

  Schumacher, Gijs ^a,b   Vis, Barbara ^b   Van Kersbergen, Kees ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

economic voting; electoral punishment; partisanship; political parties; welfare state reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865369747     PISSN: 14724790     EISSN: 1740388X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/cep.2012.5     Document Type: Article

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