Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate

Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate

Volumn 9780199286720, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-272

  McDonald, Michael D ^a   Budge, Ian ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative data; Democratic theory; Direct democracy; Government mandate; Mandates; Median mandate; Policy convergence; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945661904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199286728.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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