Measuring party linkage across districts: Some party system inflation indices and their properties

Party Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 543-564

  Moenius, Johannes ^a   Kasuya, Yuko ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross district analysis; Linkage; Measurement; Party system; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644369705     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068804045387     Document Type: Article

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