Candidate selection: Methods and consequences

Handbook of Party Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 109-121

  Hazan, Reuven Y ^a   Rahat, Gideon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781848608047.n11     Document Type: Chapter

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