How to perform crisis: A model for understanding the key role of crisis in contemporary populism

Government and Opposition

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 189-217

  Moffitt, Benjamin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84995324188     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: 14777053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2014.13     Document Type: Article

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