Issue Entrepreneurship and Multiparty Competition

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1159-1185

  Hobolt, Sara B ^a   de Vries, Catherine E ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

issue entrepreneurship; issue evolution; multiparty systems; political parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937029257     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414015575030     Document Type: Article

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