Do Issues Decide? Partisan Conditioning and Perceptions of Party Issue Positions across the Electoral Cycle

BRITISH ELECTIONS and PARTIES REVIEW: VOLUME 14

Volumn 14, Issue , 2022, Pages 18-39

  Evans, Geoffrey ^a   Andersen, Robert ^b,c  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203012970-3     Document Type: Chapter

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