Mixed Electoral Systems: Contamination and its Consequences

Mixed Electoral Systems: Contamination and its Consequences
ISBN-10
1403978859
ISBN-13
9781403978851
Category
Political Science
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2005-12-09
Publisher
Springer
Authors
F. Ferrara, E. Herron, M. Nishikawa

Description

Using election returns, public opinion surveys, and legislative roll-call data from many mixed systems in every world region, the authors show that contamination systematically affects party strategy, voting behaviour, legislative cohesion and overall structure of partisan competition.

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