Social cleavages and the number of parties: How the measures you choose affect the answers you get

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1439-1465

  Stoll, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electoral systems; Measurement; Party systems; Social cleavages; Social heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149119584     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414007305813     Document Type: Article

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