Elite Preferences in a Consolidating Democracy: The Brazilian Legislative Surveys, 1990-2009

Latin American Politics and Society

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1-27

  Power, Timothy J ^a   Zucco, Cesar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ELITE POLITICS; GEOPOLITICS; LEADERSHIP; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84869790169     PISSN: 1531426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2012.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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