The competitive road to proportional representation: Partisan biases and electoral regime change under increasing party competition

World Politics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 254-295

  Calvo, Ernesto ^a  

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ELECTION; PARTY POLITICS;

EID: 69249106525     PISSN: 00438871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0043887109000100     Document Type: Article

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