Learning note: Ignorance-based quantitative models and their practical implications

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 421-431

  Taagepera, Rein ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Number of parties; Theoretical estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039520046     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951692899011003008     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Cox, Gary W. (1997) Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Lijphart, Arend (1994) Electoral Systems and Party Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Taagepera, Rein (1998) 'Nationwide Threshold of Representation', unpublished.
4. Taagepera, Rein and Matthew S. Shugart (1993) 'Predicting the Number of Parties: A Quantitative Model of Duverger's Mechanical Effect', American Political Science Review 87: 455-64.