The effective number of parties: A new approach

Party Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-192

  Golosov, Grigorii V ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST PETERSBURG   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Number of parties; Party system fragmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649255126     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068809339538     Document Type: Article

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