Where do radical right parties stand? Position blurring in multidimensional competition

European Political Science Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-26

  Rovny, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

dimensionality; obfuscation; radical right; spatial theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011486622     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773911000282     Document Type: Article

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