Party size baselines imposed by institutional constraints: Theory for simple electoral systems

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 331-354

  Taagepera, Rein ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Duverger's law; Institutional constraints; Reasoning by boundary conditions; Simple electoral systems; Size of parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035631471     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951692801013004001     Document Type: Article

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