Three's a crowd in two-and-a-half-party systems : how third parties have undermined their own policy objectives in five post-war democracies

This study examines the manners in which third parties’ electoral results and shifts in policy have affected major parties’ policy positioning. I respond to the work of Adams and Merrill (2006) and of Nagel and Wlezien (2010) by analyzing two-and-a-half-party systems that contain a centrist or a non...

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Main Author: Karnazes, Alexander John Peter
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46026