Explaining electoral reform: Japan versus Italy and New Zealand

Party Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 419-438

  Sakamoto, Takayuki ^a  

^a NANZAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electoral reform; Italy; Japan; New Zealand; Party competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010740174     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068899005004001     Document Type: Article

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