The populist radical right in government: The structure and agency of success and failure

Comparative European Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 421-448

  Zaslove, Andrej ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

government formation; political parties; populist radical right; West European politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865580417     PISSN: 14724790     EISSN: 1740388X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/cep.2011.19     Document Type: Review

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