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The question of whether political parties make a systematic difference in terms of public policies is one of the classics of comparative public policy research. However, unstable class cleavages and changing party strategies challenge the assumptions of traditional partisan theory, namely that parti...

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Main Authors: Wenzelburger, Georg (Author) , Zohlnhöfer, Reimut (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Party politics
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 5, Pages: 1055-1065
ISSN:1460-3683
DOI:10.1177/1354068820919316
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820919316
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Author Notes:Georg Wenzelburger, Reimut Zohlnhöfer

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