Conservation of balance in the size of parties

Party Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-298

  Taagepera, Rein ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Largest seat share; Laws of conservation; Logical quantitative models; Number of parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844383940     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068805051778     Document Type: Article

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