Comparing and contrasting the uses of two graphical tools for displaying patterns of multiparty competition: Nagayama diagrams and simplex representations

Party Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 273-299

  Grofman, Bernard ^a   Chiaramonte, Alessandro ^b   D'Alimonte, Roberto ^b   Feld, Scott L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Louisiana State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Graphics; Political competition; Visual display

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742332200     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068804042459     Document Type: Review

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