When Mayors Matter: Estimating the Impact of Mayoral Partisanship on City Policy
dc.contributor.author | Gerber, Elisabeth R | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hopkins, Daniel J | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-09T14:56:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-09T14:56:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Gerber, Elisabeth R; Hopkins, Daniel J (2011). "When Mayors Matter: Estimating the Impact of Mayoral Partisanship on City Policy." American Journal of Political Science 55(2). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92425> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0092-5853 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1540-5907 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92425 | |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Inc | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | en_US |
dc.title | When Mayors Matter: Estimating the Impact of Mayoral Partisanship on City Policy | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Political Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Government, Politics and Law | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Georgetown University | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 20409736 | en_US |
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dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92425/2/AJPS_499_sm_SuppMat.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00499.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Political Science | en_US |
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