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Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States /

Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has influenced both the party politics literature (which contin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Grofman, Bernard (Editor ), Blais, André (Editor ), Bowler, Shaun (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Studies in Public Choice, 13
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Evidence for Duverger's Law from Four Countries
  • Voting Strategically in Canada and Britain
  • Neither Representative nor Accountable: First-Past-the-Post in Britain
  • Strategic Voting in the US
  • Mechanical Effects of Duverger's Law in the United States
  • Canada: The Puzzle of Local Three-Party Competition
  • Party Inflation in India: Why Has a Multi-Party Format Prevailed in the National Party System?
  • Does the United Kingdom Obey Duverger's Law?
  • The United States: A Case of Duvergerian Equilibrium.