The dimensionality of the Scottish political space: Results from an experiment on the 2011 Holyrood elections

Party Politics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 864-878

  Wheatley, Jonathan ^a   Carman, Christopher ^b   Mendez, Fernando ^a   Mitchell, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ideological classification; ideological tendency; policy space; United Kingdom; voters citizens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908642016     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068812458614     Document Type: Article

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