Information, Inequality, and Mass Polarization: Ideology in Advanced Democracies

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1781-1813

  Iversen, Torben ^a   Soskice, David ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

elections; political economy; political parties; public opinion; voting behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944474703     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414015592643     Document Type: Article

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