Seats and Votes: Testing Taagepera in Japan

Electoral Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-81

  Reed, Steven R ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC POLITICS; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; TAAGEPERA'S HISTORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030448211     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0261-3794(94)00039-5     Document Type: Article

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