The Politics of Electoral Systems

The Politics of Electoral Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-688

  Gallagher, Michael ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elections; Electoral reform; Electoral systems; Parliaments; Party systems; Political institutions; Political parties; Representativeness; Votes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921629693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199257566.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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