Economic fluctuations and political self-placement

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-65

  Economou, Athina ^a   Gavroglou, Stavros ^b   Kollias, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b National Institute of Labour and Manpower   (Greece)

Author keywords

Economic conditions; European Union; Panel models; Political self placement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881219149     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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