The Causal Flow between Public Opinion and Policy: Government Responsiveness, Leadership, or Counter Movement?

West European Politics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1386-1406

  Hakhverdian, Armen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; POLICY REFORM; SOCIAL POLICY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84867226448     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: 17439655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2012.713751     Document Type: Article

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