Presidentialism and the effect of electoral law in postcommunist systems: Regime type matters

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-188

  Clark, Terry D ^a   Wittrock, Jill N ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Committee systems; Electoral systems; Party systems; Postcommunist states

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544278390     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414004271076     Document Type: Article

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