What Underlies Urban Politics? Race, Class, Ideology, Partisanship, and the Urban Vote

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-99

  Hajnal, Zoltan ^a   Trounstine, Jessica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

class; ideology; partisanship; race; voting

Indexed keywords

CLASS; ELECTION; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; RACE; URBAN POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84891948869     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087413485216     Document Type: Article

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