Increasing irrationality? The equilibrium relationship between electoral and legislative party system size, 1950-2005

Electoral Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-116

  Best, Robin E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electoral institutions; Error correction model; Party system size; Strategic voting

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL SYSTEM; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 73749088017     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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