Does electoral system reform work? Electoral system lessons from reforms of the 1990s

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 161-181

  Scheiner, Ethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Italy; Japan; New zealand; Parties; Party system; Personalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 47549093615     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.060106.183415     Document Type: Article

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