Why Europeans (don't) turn out to vote

Political Communication in European Parliamentary Elections

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 213-232

  Seeber, Gilg U H ^a   Steinbrecher, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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