Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946-2011

Electoral Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 360-369

  Bormann, Nils Christian ^a   Golder, Matt ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data; Electoral systems; Party systems

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DEMOCRACY; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL HISTORY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876132640     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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