Effective number of parties for incomplete data

Electoral Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-151

  Taagepera, Rein ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Disproportionality; Lumped data; Number of parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001029842     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0261-3794(97)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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