Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems

Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-320

  Taagepera, Rein ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Assembly size; Cabinet duration; District magnitude; Electoral systems; Institutional design; Number of parties; Party systems; Quantitatively predictive models; Seat allocation; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349129761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287741.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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