Validating the Manifesto Research Group approach: Theoretical assumptions and empirical confirmations

Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 50-65

  Budge, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85138430817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203451656-6     Document Type: Chapter

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