Why do parties change position? party organization and environmental incentives

Journal of Politics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 464-477

  Schumacher, Gijs ^a,b   De Vries, Catherine E ^c   Vis, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84876187906     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022381613000145     Document Type: Article

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50. Composition, Duration, Personnel. Dordrecht, Ger.: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Gijs Schumacher is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 5230, and at the Department of Political Science at the VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1081HV. Catherine E. de Vries is a Professor of European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, OX1 3UQ. Barbara Vis is a Professor in Political Decisionmaking at the Department of Political Science at the VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1081HV.