Aggregated threshold functions or how to measure the performance of an electoral system

Electoral Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 492-502

  Ruiz Rufino, Rubén ^a  

^a Juan March Institute   (Spain)

Author keywords

District and national levels; Perfect proportionality; Threshold of exclusion; Threshold of representation

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; THRESHOLD; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34248168056     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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