Plurality voting: The statistical laws of democracy in Brazil

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1809-1813

  Araripe, Luis E ^a   Costa Filho, Raimundo N ^a   Herrmann, Hans J ^a   Andrade Jr , José S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Election statistics; Fragmentation model; Voting process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846340733     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183106010200     Document Type: Article

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