Votes, seats and power: 1996 parliamentary election in the Czech Republic

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 289-305

  Turnovec, František ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Coalition; Deviation from proportionality; Distribution of power; Power indices; Qualified majority; Simple majority; Threshold; Voting power

Indexed keywords

ELECTION (1996); ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; NATIONAL POLITICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; VOTING METHOD;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 0031406392     PISSN: 0967067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-067X(97)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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