In defiance of Duverger: The class cleavage and the emergence of district-level multiparty systems in western Europe
At its core, Duverger’s Law, which holds that the number of viable parties in first-past-the-post systems should not exceed two, applies primarily at the district level. While the number of parties nationally may exceed two, district-level party system fragmentation should not. A growing body of res...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Research & Politics |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168014567557 |