Institutional determinants of the largest seat share

Electoral Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 760-775

  Taagepera, Rein ^a,b   Ensch, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Assembly size; District magnitude; Duverger's Law; Electoral systems; Largest seat share; Political parties

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTY POLITICS;

EID: 33748513864     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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