Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections: Who's Really Driving the Taxi to the Dark Side?

International Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 3-41

  Ferguson, Thomas ^a   Jorgensen, Paul ^b   Chen, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

banking; climate change; defense economics; deregulation; financial regulation; political economy; presidential elections; regulation; surveillance; Tea Party

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926520764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15580970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/IJP0891-1916420201     Document Type: Article

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