Attitude Variability Among Latin American Publics: How Party System Structuration Affects Left/Right Ideology

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 947-967

  Harbers, Imke ^a   de Vries, Catherine E ^b   Steenbergen, Marco R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Latin America; left right ideology; party system structuration; public opinion; response variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879977950     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414012454409     Document Type: Article

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