Party aggregation and the number of parties in India and the United States

American Political Science Review

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 329-342

  Chhibber, Pradeep ^a   Kollman, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0032220645     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2585667     Document Type: Article

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