Issues and party competition under alternative electoral systems

Party Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 123-141

  Karp, Jeffrey A ^a   Banducci, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Directional models; Electoral systems; New Zealand; Proximity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038893621     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068802008001006     Document Type: Article

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