Implications of the Effective Number of Parties for Cabinet Formation

Party Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 227-236

  Taagepera, Rein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

consensual and majoritarian systems; effective number of parties; types of cabinet coalitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990317009     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068802008002005     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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2. Lijphart, Arend (1999) Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
3. Mackie, Thomas T. and Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, 3rd ed. London: Macmillan.
4. Taagepera, Rein and Matthew S. Shugart (1989) Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
5. van der Kolk, Henk (2000) Book review of Lijphart (1999). Acta Politica 35: 340-343.